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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

Organizations, dashboards, and panels

The user interface of Grafana is organized using a hierarchical structure.

From a high level to low, the structure is organizations, dashboards, and panels. Let’s understand these three entities.

Organizations

In Grafana, you can build multiple organizations to organize dashboards. Imagine you have several departments in an enterprise, and each of them is interested in different metrics.

You can create different organizations and assign the users of each department to the corresponding organization. In this way, each user only accesses the information that is relevant to them.

So, with a single instance of Grafana, you can manage information across all organizations without messing them up.

You can also assign a user to one or many organizations. Imagine a general manager that wants to see relevant information on the departments that depend on them. Each of these areas can have its organizational entities with dashboards...