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Learn Grafana 7.0

You're reading from   Learn Grafana 7.0 A beginner's guide to getting well versed in analytics, interactive dashboards, and monitoring

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826581
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eric Salituro Eric Salituro
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Grafana
2. Introduction to Data Visualization with Grafana FREE CHAPTER 3. A Tour of the Grafana Interface 4. An Introduction to the Graph Panel 5. Real-World Grafana
6. Connecting Grafana to a Data Source 7. Visualizing Data in the Graph Panel 8. Visualization Panels in Grafana 9. Creating Your First Dashboard 10. Working with Advanced Dashboard Features 11. Grafana Alerting 12. Exploring Logs with Grafana Loki 13. Managing Grafana
14. Organizing Dashboards 15. Managing Permissions for Users and Teams 16. Authentication with External Services 17. Cloud Monitoring 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding users

While it might seem perfectly reasonable to use and manage a simple Grafana tutorial server with a single admin user, it would be impractical, if not irresponsible, to try to do the same for a Grafana site with more than even a couple of people. With that in mind, you should go ahead and establish independent user accounts for anyone that plans to access your site. It will also be your responsibility to add and delete those user accounts, set their roles, and establish what those users will be able to access within those roles.

Initially, you probably logged in with the default admin user, which is installed with every Grafana instance. That user has full administrative privileges and, unless you changed it, an insecure password. This is not at all secure, so before you even add a single user, be sure to reset the password to one of your own choosing.

Adding users – by invitation only

Out of the box, Grafana only provides a single mechanism...

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