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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

Summary

In this chapter, we covered Grafana integrations for three of the world's biggest cloud providers. Grafana currently provides built-in data sources for Amazon CloudWatch, Azure Log Monitor and Application Insights, and Google Stackdriver. While each service can have its own interfaces of varying complexity, the procedures are remarkably similar. They consist mainly of registering an application (or application service account), assigning a role to enable or restrict the application permissions, and generating a Client ID and Secret. Once you have the Secrets, it's only a matter of plugging them into the data source.

Not only have we reached the end of this chapter, but we've reached the end of this book! I hope you found the previous chapters as informative and enjoyable to read as it was for me to write them. By the time you read this, this book will only mark the beginning of the journey for Grafana 7. Over the course of the next few weeks and...