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Learn Grafana 7.0

By : Eric Salituro
Book Image

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

We've come to the end of our introduction to data sources and how to create queries for them. As a treat, go to Configuration | Data sources and edit your Prometheus data source configuration. You'll notice a second tab called Dashboards. Under that tab is a set of dashboards curated to work with a Prometheus data source.

If you import the Grafana metrics dashboard, you'll now have a full dashboard with a number of Graph and Singlestat panels. Some of the queries we tried out in this chapter were inspired by those dashboard panels. Open and edit them to get a look at the queries, see how they were constructed, and note the techniques that were used to extract information from the data series for use in the legend.

In fact, one of the best ways to learn a complex application such as Grafana is to simply crack open the dashboard panels from different sources and glean knowledge from the work of others. One of the more pleasant aspects of Grafana...