Summary

There you have it—a tour of the basic Grafana interface. We looked at the Grafana UI, identified key elements, and took a closer look at some of them, including the search bar, the Grafana menu, and the dashboard. Of course, we have barely scratched the surface and we’ve scarcely created a dashboard or visualization panel!

In Chapter 3, Diving into Grafana's Time Series Visualization, we will cover a key feature of the Grafana interface—the time series visualization. If you plan to do any graphing, you’re going to be using the time series visualization. It’s the most powerful and feature-rich of the panels available in Grafana, so we’re going to spend the entire next chapter going over its interface. After that, in Chapter 4, Connecting Grafana to a Prometheus Data Source, we’ll complete our introduction to Grafana’s interface by looking at data sources and how they bring time series data to Grafana.