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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

Linking and sharing dashboards

In this section, you will learn how to link dashboards to achieve better navigation. You will also learn how to share dashboards.

Linking dashboards and panels

You can use links to navigate between dashboards, panels, and even external sites. Links allow you to build a better experience for the user. For example, you may have related data distributed among several dashboards. In this case, links are a good tool for rapid and easy navigation.

In Grafana, you can use dashboard links, panel links, and data links. Dashboard links are shown at the top of the dashboard, whereas you can see panel links in the top-left corner of the panel.

Dashboard links

In a dashboard link, you can include the time range and variables, so the user can see the right data. Let’s see how to create a dashboard link.

Figure 8.18 – Creating a dashboard link

To add links to dashboards, follow these steps (see Figure 8.18):

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