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Building IoT Visualizations using Grafana

You're reading from   Building IoT Visualizations using Grafana Power up your IoT projects and monitor with Prometheus, LibreNMS, and Elasticsearch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803236124
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rodrigo Juan Hernandez Rodrigo Juan Hernandez
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Meeting Grafana
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Grafana FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Exploring Grafana 4. Part 2: Collecting Data from IoT Devices
5. Chapter 3: Connecting IoT Devices 6. Chapter 4: Data Sources for Grafana 7. Chapter 5: Using Time Series Databases 8. Part 3: Connecting Data Sources and Building Dashboards
9. Chapter 6: Getting Data and Building Dashboards 10. Chapter 7: Managing Plugins 11. Chapter 8: Organizing and Managing Dashboards 12. Part 4: Performing Analytics and Notifications
13. Chapter 9: Performing Analytics in Grafana 14. Chapter 10: Alerting and Notifications in Grafana 15. Part 5: Integrating Grafana with Other Platforms
16. Chapter 11: Using Grafana with Prometheus 17. Chapter 12: Using Grafana with OpenSearch 18. Chapter 13: Showing Data from LibreNMS in Grafana 19. Chapter 14: Integrations for Grafana Cloud 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring LibreNMS to use InfluxDB

By default, LibreNMS stores its metrics in RRD files. However, you can send the data to other databases, such as Graphite, InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, or Prometheus.

In this chapter, we are going to use InfluxDB. This integration allows you to save the metrics in a time-series database that can be accessed by other systems, such as Grafana.

Important Note

LibreNMS and InfluxDB are completely separate and independent projects. The LibreNMS website says that it doesn't guarantee that InfluxDB integration will always work. However, at the time of writing this book, all is going well.

Let´s see how to configure LibreNMS to send metrics to InfluxDB.

Before configuring LibreNMS, you have to create a database in the InfluxDB instance. Also, it’s good practice to create a username and a password for accessing the database. For security reasons, avoid using the admin user.

The main configuration file of LibreNMS – conFigurephp...

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