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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.

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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Get in touch
1
Getting Started with Grafana
Getting Started with Grafana
Free Chapter
2
Introduction to Data Visualization with Grafana
Introduction to Data Visualization with Grafana
Technical requirements
Data and visualization
Why Grafana?
Installing Grafana
Connecting to the Grafana server
Summary
3
A Tour of the Grafana Interface
A Tour of the Grafana Interface
Technical requirements
Exploring Grafana – the Home dashboard
Glancing at the sidebar menu
Learning to use the icons on Grafana's left sidebar
Summary
4
An Introduction to the Graph Panel
An Introduction to the Graph Panel
Technical requirements
Touring the graph panel
Generating data series in the Query tab
Editing the graph in the Panel tab
Monitoring with the Alert tab
Summary
5
Real-World Grafana
Real-World Grafana
6
Connecting Grafana to a Data Source
Connecting Grafana to a Data Source
Technical requirements
Installing the Prometheus server
Exploring Prometheus
Querying the Prometheus data source
Detecting trends with aggregations
Understanding the data source limitations
Summary
7
Visualizing Data in the Graph Panel
Visualizing Data in the Graph Panel
Technical requirements
Making advanced queries
Understanding the time series data display
Setting vertical axes
Working with legends
Summary
8
Visualization Panels in Grafana
Visualization Panels in Grafana
Technical requirements
Introducing the Stat panel
Working with the Gauge panel
Geolocating data on the Worldmap panel
Structuring data fields in the Table panel
Summary
9
Creating Your First Dashboard
Creating Your First Dashboard
Technical requirements
Designing a dashboard
Creating a high information density dashboard
Creating a high information visibility dashboard
Summary
10
Working with Advanced Dashboard Features
Working with Advanced Dashboard Features
Technical requirements
Building the data server
Templating dashboards
Linking dashboards
Annotating dashboards
Sharing dashboards
Summary
11
Grafana Alerting
Grafana Alerting
Technical requirements
Setting thresholds
Configuring alerts
Assigning alerts to notification channels
Troubleshooting and controlling alerts
Summary
12
Exploring Logs with Grafana Loki
Exploring Logs with Grafana Loki
Loading system logs into Loki
Visualizing Loki log data with Explore
Adding additional service logs
Querying logs and metrics with Explore
Summary
13
Managing Grafana
Managing Grafana
14
Organizing Dashboards
Organizing Dashboards
Technical requirements
Managing dashboards and folders
Starring and tagging dashboards
Building and running dashboard playlists
Exploring the dashboard list panel
Summary
15
Managing Permissions for Users and Teams
Managing Permissions for Users and Teams
Technical requirements
Understanding key permissions concepts
Adding users
Setting permissions
Establishing teams
Administering users and organizations
Summary
16
Authentication with External Services
Authentication with External Services
Technical requirements
Authenticating with OpenLDAP
Authenticating with GitHub
Authenticating with Google
Authenticating with Okta
Summary
17
Cloud Monitoring
Cloud Monitoring
Configuring an AWS CloudWatch data source
Configuring a Microsoft Azure Monitor data source
Configuring a Google Stackdriver data source
Summary
18
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Installing the Prometheus server

Our first task is to get the Prometheus server up and running so that we can start serving real data. Prometheus is a powerful open source time-series database and monitoring system originally developed by SoundCloud. It followed Kubernetes to become the second Cloud Native Computing Foundation graduating incubation project. Grafana, having partnered with the Prometheus maintainers, includes the Prometheus data source as a first-class data source plugin.

Tutorial code, dashboards, and other helpful files for this chapter can be found in this book's GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Grafana-7.0/tree/master/Chapter04.

Installing Prometheus from Docker

We're going to start up Prometheus from Docker Compose and point it to a local configuration file. First, let's create the following configuration file and save it to our local ch4/prometheus directory as prometheus.yml:

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