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Learn Grafana 7.0

By : Eric Salituro
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Learn Grafana 7.0

By: Eric Salituro

Overview of this book

Grafana is an open-source analytical platform used to analyze and monitoring time-series data. This beginner's guide will help you get to grips with Grafana's new features for querying, visualizing, and exploring metrics and logs no matter where they are stored. The book begins by showing you how to install and set up the Grafana server. You'll explore the working mechanism of various components of the Grafana interface along with its security features, and learn how to visualize and monitor data using, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Logstash, and Elasticsearch. This Grafana book covers the advanced features of the Graph panel and shows you how Stat, Table, Bar Gauge, and Text are used. You'll build dynamic dashboards to perform end-to-end analytics and label and organize dashboards into folders to make them easier to find. As you progress, the book delves into the administrative aspects of Grafana by creating alerts, setting permissions for teams, and implementing user authentication. Along with exploring Grafana's multi-cloud monitoring support, you'll also learn about Grafana Loki, which is a backend logger for users running Prometheus and Kubernetes. By the end of this book, you'll have gained all the knowledge you need to start building interactive dashboards.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Getting Started with Grafana
5
Real-World Grafana
13
Managing Grafana

Configuring a Google Stackdriver data source

Our last stop on our tour of cloud providers is with another cloud heavyweight: Google Cloud Platform and its Stackdriver (now called Google Operations) logging service. We'll go through the procedure to connect the Google Stackdriver data source. The process for connecting a local data source with Stackdriver involves only a few steps:

  1. Enable the relevant monitoring APIs.
  2. Create a service account with appropriate permissions.
  3. Generate a JWT token.
  4. Load the JWT token into the Google Stackdriver data source configuration.

To get started, log into your Google Cloud Console and select the appropriate project. It is in this project that we'll define our service account. This will be the only one our data source can access. You will need to create a separate data source for each GCP project you want to monitor.

Enabling Google Cloud APIs

After selecting...