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Building IoT Visualizations using Grafana

By : Rodrigo Juan Hernández
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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 9: Performing Analytics in Grafana

In this chapter, you will learn how to transform data and perform calculations on it. You will use some built-in Grafana functionalities, InfluxQL capabilities, and the Plotly plugin.

First, you will learn how to use numerical manipulations on an InfluxDB data source. Then, you’ll learn about transformations in Grafana.

These calculations include statistical, derivative, integral, and mathematic functions.

You will also learn how to embed Plotly dashboards in Grafana panels.

The topics that are covered in this chapter are the following:

  • InfluxDB calculations
  • Transformations in Grafana
  • Building advanced plots with Plotly

After finishing this chapter, you will be able to perform all kinds of calculations on data and build complex visualizations.