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Learn Grafana 10.x

You're reading from   Learn Grafana 10.x A beginner's guide to practical data analytics, interactive dashboards, and observability

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803231082
Length 542 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Eric Salituro Eric Salituro
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Getting Started with Grafana
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Data Visualization with Grafana FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Touring the Grafana Interface 4. Chapter 3: Diving into Grafana's Time Series Visualization 5. Part 2 – Real-World Grafana
6. Chapter 4: Connecting Grafana to a Prometheus Data Source 7. Chapter 5: Extracting and Visualizing Data with InfluxDB and Grafana 8. Chapter 6: Shaping Data with Grafana Transformations 9. Chapter 7: Surveying Key Grafana Visualizations 10. Chapter 8: Surveying Additional Grafana Visualizations 11. Chapter 9: Creating Insightful Dashboards 12. Chapter 10: Working with Advanced Dashboard Features and Elasticsearch 13. Chapter 11: Streaming Real-Time IoT Data from Telegraf Agent to Grafana Live 14. Chapter 12: Monitoring Data Streams with Grafana Alerts 15. Chapter 13: Exploring Log Data with Grafana’s Loki 16. Part 3 – Managing Grafana
17. Chapter 14: Organizing Dashboards and Folders 18. Chapter 15: Managing Permissions for Users, Teams, and Organizations 19. Chapter 16: Authenticating Grafana Logins Using LDAP or OAuth 2 Providers 20. Chapter 17: Cloud Monitoring AWS, Azure, and GCP 21. Index 22. 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 a couple of people. With that in mind, you should go ahead and establish independent user accounts for anyone who 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.

Tip

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 to add users...

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