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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Chapter 2: Exploring Grafana

In this chapter, you will learn about all the features included in Grafana. You will start to get familiar with the platform, understanding every aspect of it. First, you will discover all the menu options in the main interface. Then, you will learn about the graphical organization of Grafana, with organizations, dashboards, and panels. After that, you will learn how to ingest data into Grafana with data sources and find out about the different types.

Then, you will be introduced to plugins, which are pieces of software that make Grafana very easy to use. After that, you will learn about user management, through the topics of organizations, teams, and users. Finally, you will see some authentication methods that you can use with Grafana.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics: