The Grafana interface introduces several extensive capabilities. Grafana primarily displays information as a series of dashboards meant to group together interesting or related graphs. Dashboards contain panels, which are essentially customized views of our performance measurement data.
These panels can contain any number of things, from standard graphs to gauges, top-10 lists, logs, heat-maps, or even lists of other dashboards. There's a lot here to work with and, given all of these options, it's probably best to begin with a standard chart of values so we can understand how Grafana works with the most common use case.
This recipe will take you through the interface to create a graph within a Grafana dashboard. Finally, we can avoid extremely technical discussions for a while!