In this chapter, we looked at a number of the key plugin panels that come preinstalled with Grafana. We examined the Stat, Gauge, and Bar Gauge panels—panels that reduce the complexity of each data series into a single graphical or textual representation. These panels also give you a number of styling tools to augment the visual appeal and significance of your data.
We also looked at the optional Worldmap panel, one of the many panels that can be downloaded from Grafana Labs. The Worldmap panel is useful for displaying data tagged with latitude and longitude. We also showed how to represent data values visually by mapping them to a specified size and/or color.
Finally, we explored some of the capabilities of the Table panel. The Table panel is a gridded data panel, similar in appearance to a spreadsheet, that displays time-series data by row or column or in aggregation, or it simply displays tabular data. We learned how to use regular expressions...