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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 5: Using Time Series Databases

Time series databases (TSDBs) are a must in any Internet of Things (IoT) platform. As we have seen in Chapter 4, Data Sources for Grafana, we need a way to store data from IoT devices.

IoT data is inherently associated with time because every measurement occurs at a specific time. So, we have a timestamp for each measurement.

The TSDB allows storing, managing, and querying time-series data easily.

Let’s start learning how to install and configure an InfluxDB instance.

In this chapter, you will see the following topics:

  • Installing and configuring InfluxDB
  • Creating and managing an InfluxDB database
  • Installing OpenTSDB
  • Writing data in OpenTSDB

This chapter is a fundamental piece of this book because we will use TSDBs for building dashboards and performing analytics over the next chapters.