Learn Grafana 7.0 - Eric Salituro Racibórz

Grafana is an open-source analytical platform used to analyze and monitoring time-series data. This beginners guide will help you get to grips with Grafanas 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. Youll 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. Youll 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 Grafanas multi-cloud monitoring support, youll also learn about Grafana Loki, which is a backend logger for users running Prometheus and Kubernetes.By the end of this book, youll have gained all the knowledge you need to start building interactive dashboards. Spis treści: 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 Grafanas Loki 11. Organizing Dashboards 12. Managing Permissions For Users and Teams 13. Authentication with External Services 14. Cloud Monitoring O autorze: Eric Salituro is currently a Senior Software Engineer 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.