Learn Grafana 7.0: A beginner's guide to getting well versed in analytics, interactive dashboards, and monitoring

Grafana is an open-source analytical platform used to analyze and monitoring time-series data. This beginner's guide will help you get to grips with Grafana's new features for querying, visualizing, and exploring metrics and logs no matter where they are stored.

The book begins by showing you how to install and set up the Grafana server. You'll explore the working mechanism of various components of the Grafana interface along with its security features, and learn how to visualize and monitor data using, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Logstash, and Elasticsearch. This Grafana book covers the advanced features of the Graph panel and shows you how Stat, Table, Bar Gauge, and Text are used. You'll build dynamic dashboards to perform end-to-end analytics and label and organize dashboards into folders to make them easier to find. As you progress, the book delves into the administrative aspects of Grafana by creating alerts, setting permissions for teams, and implementing user authentication. Along with exploring Grafana's multi-cloud monitoring support, you'll also learn about Grafana Loki, which is a backend logger for users running Prometheus and Kubernetes.

By the end of this book, you'll have gained all the knowledge you need to start building interactive dashboards.

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Learn Grafana 7.0: A beginner's guide to getting well versed in analytics, interactive dashboards, and monitoring

Grafana is an open-source analytical platform used to analyze and monitoring time-series data. This beginner's guide will help you get to grips with Grafana's new features for querying, visualizing, and exploring metrics and logs no matter where they are stored.

The book begins by showing you how to install and set up the Grafana server. You'll explore the working mechanism of various components of the Grafana interface along with its security features, and learn how to visualize and monitor data using, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Logstash, and Elasticsearch. This Grafana book covers the advanced features of the Graph panel and shows you how Stat, Table, Bar Gauge, and Text are used. You'll build dynamic dashboards to perform end-to-end analytics and label and organize dashboards into folders to make them easier to find. As you progress, the book delves into the administrative aspects of Grafana by creating alerts, setting permissions for teams, and implementing user authentication. Along with exploring Grafana's multi-cloud monitoring support, you'll also learn about Grafana Loki, which is a backend logger for users running Prometheus and Kubernetes.

By the end of this book, you'll have gained all the knowledge you need to start building interactive dashboards.

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Learn Grafana 7.0: A beginner's guide to getting well versed in analytics, interactive dashboards, and monitoring

Learn Grafana 7.0: A beginner's guide to getting well versed in analytics, interactive dashboards, and monitoring

by Eric Salituro
Learn Grafana 7.0: A beginner's guide to getting well versed in analytics, interactive dashboards, and monitoring

Learn Grafana 7.0: A beginner's guide to getting well versed in analytics, interactive dashboards, and monitoring

by Eric Salituro

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Overview

Grafana is an open-source analytical platform used to analyze and monitoring time-series data. This beginner's guide will help you get to grips with Grafana's new features for querying, visualizing, and exploring metrics and logs no matter where they are stored.

The book begins by showing you how to install and set up the Grafana server. You'll explore the working mechanism of various components of the Grafana interface along with its security features, and learn how to visualize and monitor data using, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Logstash, and Elasticsearch. This Grafana book covers the advanced features of the Graph panel and shows you how Stat, Table, Bar Gauge, and Text are used. You'll build dynamic dashboards to perform end-to-end analytics and label and organize dashboards into folders to make them easier to find. As you progress, the book delves into the administrative aspects of Grafana by creating alerts, setting permissions for teams, and implementing user authentication. Along with exploring Grafana's multi-cloud monitoring support, you'll also learn about Grafana Loki, which is a backend logger for users running Prometheus and Kubernetes.

By the end of this book, you'll have gained all the knowledge you need to start building interactive dashboards.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781838828318
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication date: 06/25/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 410
File size: 48 MB
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About the Author

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
  1. Introduction to Data Visualization with Grafana
  2. A Tour of the Grafana Interface
  3. An Introduction to the Graph Panel
  4. Connecting Grafana to a Data Source
  5. Visualizing Data in the Graph Panel
  6. Visualization Panels In Grafana
  7. Creating your First Dashboard
  8. Working with Advanced Dashboard Features
  9. Grafana Alerting
  10. Exploring Logs With Grafana's Loki
  11. Organizing Dashboards
  12. Managing Permissions For Users and Teams
  13. Authentication with External Services
  14. Cloud Monitoring
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