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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

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned how to use Grafana Cloud integrations. These integrations let you build complex Grafana dashboards in a matter of minutes.

The metric data is sent from the hosts using the Grafana Agent software. This software is built on the Prometheus remote_write functionality. The Grafana Agent comes with preconfigured parameters for scraping relevant data from the host.

On the other side, the integration deploys ready-to-use Grafana dashboards, showing all the data collected by the Grafana Agent.

As you have seen, it’s pretty easy to build specific application dashboards using the Grafana Cloud integrations.

In this chapter, you have seen how to implement the integrations for Linux Node, Home Assistant, and RabbitMQ. You can apply similar procedures to use any other integration.

You have reached the last chapter of this book. I hope you have enjoyed it and thank you very much for reading it.