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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

Generating data series in the Query tab

If it isn't already selected, click on the Query tab to select it. The Query tab is where we will assign a data source to the panel's queries. With TestData DB set as the default data source, Grafana also sets up Random Walk to be the default query Scenario, so we are now ready to go with both a data source and a query that produces the displayed dataset series.

Before we go into the Query tab, we should probably talk a bit about its purpose. Rather than some similar applications that connect to a single database application, Grafana was designed to be agnostic about data. Grafana data source plugins are not only responsible for presenting a simplified query interface to the Grafana user but also for feeding the returned data into the Grafana 7 unified data model, which is used by many panels. Most Grafana users will find that, even with a simplified query UI, they can make relatively sophisticated queries.

In cases...