Learn Grafana 7.0
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 410 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook (June 25, 2020)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1838826580
- ISBN-13: 978-1838826581
eBook Description:
Learn Grafana 7.0: A comprehensive introduction to help you get up and running with creating interactive dashboards to visualize and monitor time-series data in no time
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.
- Find out how to visualize data using Grafana
- Understand how to work with the major components of the Graph panel
- Explore mixed data sources, query inspector, and time interval settings
- Discover advanced dashboard features such as annotations, templating with variables, dashboard linking, and dashboard sharing techniques
- Connect user authentication to Google, GitHub, and a variety of external services
- Find out how Grafana can provide monitoring support for cloud service infrastructures
By the end of this Learn Grafana 7.0 book, you’ll have gained all the knowledge you need to start building interactive dashboards.