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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803236124

Length 360 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Elasticsearch

Concepts

IoT Development

Author (1):

Rodrigo Juan Hernandez

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

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

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Showing time-series data in graph panels

Showing time-series graphs is possibly the main objective of any Grafana implementation. Using this type of graph not only allows you to see a clear picture of the evolution of some variables but also gives you the option of performing analytics on the data.

In this section, you will learn how to create your first graph panel using a time-series data source. So, let’s start with the dashboard creation, as you can see in the following screenshot:

Figure 6.4 – The creation of a dashboard

To create a dashboard, you have to go to the plus sign in the left menu and click on Dashboard. A new, empty dashboard will be created.

From here, you will have to create panels, where you will be able to specify the type of visualization that you need. So, click on Add an empty panel to explore the available options. You will get a view similar to the one shown in the following screenshot:

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