Grafana is a visualization and dashboard tool for time-series data. It allows you to aggregate data from multiple sources and construct beautiful graphs and telemetry, helping you analyze and make sense of data. It has a JMeter extension, making it ideal for our use case in this chapter.
Grafana is easy to set up and the company's website--https://grafana.com/--has ample installation instructions for various platforms. Here, we have highlighted a few of the most encountered operating systems. Ensure that you check the mentioned link for the most up-to-date instructions, or if instructions for your target operating system are not captured here.
At the time of writing, the latest version of Grafana is 4.3.2, and that's what we will be using for the rest of this chapter. This is how Grafana can be installed on some of the commonly used operating systems...
