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Building IoT Visualizations using Grafana

By : Rodrigo Juan Hernández
5 (1)
Book Image

Building IoT Visualizations using Grafana

5 (1)
By: Rodrigo Juan Hernández

Overview of this book

Grafana is a powerful open source software that helps you to visualize and analyze data gathered from various sources. It allows you to share valuable information through unclouded dashboards, run analytics, and send notifications. Building IoT Visualizations Using Grafana offers how-to procedures, useful resources, and advice that will help you to implement IoT solutions with confidence. You’ll begin by installing and configuring Grafana according to your needs. Next, you’ll acquire the skills needed to implement your own IoT system using communication brokers, databases, and metric management systems, as well as integrate everything with Grafana. You’ll learn to collect data from IoT devices and store it in databases, as well as discover how to connect databases to Grafana, make queries, and build insightful dashboards. Finally, the book will help you implement analytics for visualizing data, performing automation, and delivering notifications. By the end of this Grafana book, you’ll be able to build insightful dashboards, perform analytics, and deliver notifications that apply to IoT and IT systems.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Meeting Grafana
4
Part 2: Collecting Data from IoT Devices
8
Part 3: Connecting Data Sources and Building Dashboards
12
Part 4: Performing Analytics and Notifications
15
Part 5: Integrating Grafana with Other Platforms

Chapter 8: Organizing and Managing Dashboards

A dashboard must provide a clear picture of the data. So, it is important to keep things clean and organized, showing neat dashboards with relevant information.

In previous chapters, you have learned how to build dashboards using different types of data sources and visualization panels. In this chapter, you will learn how to organize, manage, and share dashboards.

Grafana offers several tools for organizing dashboards and making insights.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following:

  • Organizing panels and dashboards
  • Properties of dashboards
  • Annotations and variables
  • Linking and sharing dashboards
  • Exporting and importing dashboards

First, let’s see how you can organize your panels and dashboards.