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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

That's it for the graph panel for now! I invite you to play around with the various settings, especially those in the Visualization panel. Here are some simple exercises for you to try out:

  1. Create multiple data series in the Query tab. Try out the different Scenarios to see how they create different kinds of data. Rearrange the order to see what effect it has on the graph.
  2. Play with different combinations of drawing objects in the Displaysection. Change the fill or size of points, lines, and bars.
  3. Turn on the legend and test out its many options. Try clicking on various elements in the legend itself – you might find some surprises!

This chapter completesSection 1: Getting Started With Grafana. In this section, we installed the Grafana server, checked out the Grafana application interface, set up some simple dashboards, and graphed test data sources. In the next section,Section 2: Real-World Grafana, we...