You're reading from Observability with Grafana Monitor, control, and visualize your Kubernetes and cloud platforms using the LGTM stack

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803248004

Length 356 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Grafana

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (2):

Rob Chapman

Peter Holmes

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Get Started with Grafana and Observability

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Observability and the Grafana Stack FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Instrumenting Applications and Infrastructure

4. Chapter 3: Setting Up a Learning Environment with Demo Applications

5. Part 2: Implement Telemetry in Grafana

6. Chapter 4: Looking at Logs with Grafana Loki

7. Chapter 5: Monitoring with Metrics Using Grafana Mimir and Prometheus

8. Chapter 6: Tracing Technicalities with Grafana Tempo

9. Chapter 7: Interrogating Infrastructure with Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and Azure

10. Part 3: Grafana in Practice

11. Chapter 8: Displaying Data with Dashboards

12. Chapter 9: Managing Incidents Using Alerts

13. Chapter 10: Automation with Infrastructure as Code

14. Chapter 11: Architecting an Observability Platform

15. Part 4: Advanced Applications and Best Practices of Grafana

16. Chapter 12: Real User Monitoring with Grafana

17. Chapter 13: Application Performance with Grafana Pyroscope and k6

18. Chapter 14: Supporting DevOps Processes with Observability

19. Chapter 15: Troubleshooting, Implementing Best Practices, and More with Grafana

20. Index

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Visualizing AWS telemetry with Grafana Cloud

There are two main ways in which you can visualize your AWS telemetry with Grafana Cloud:

Amazon CloudWatch data source: Amazon CloudWatch telemetry remains in AWS and Grafana is configured to remotely read the data at query time
AWS integration: AWS CloudWatch telemetry data is either sent to or scraped and stored in Grafana Cloud (logs in Loki and metrics in Mimir).

Let’s take a look at the differences between these two options to understand whether the integration option or the data source option best fits your use case.

Amazon CloudWatch data source

Grafana Cloud comes with support for Amazon CloudWatch, allowing you to query, trigger alerts, and visualize your data in Grafana dashboards. To read CloudWatch telemetry, you will need to configure the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions and provide the necessary authentication details in the data source configuration screen. This does not...

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