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Published in Jul 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803236124

Length 360 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Elasticsearch

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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

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 4: Data Sources for Grafana

In this chapter, you will learn about the various data sources that you can use in Grafana. You will also learn about data concepts that are used in these data sources.

Grafana accepts different types of data sources, but we will focus mainly on NoSQL databases and, specifically, on time series databases (TSDBs). Also, you will learn how to feed Grafana with Excel, CSV files, and live data.

The main topics of this chapter are as follows:

What is a data source?
SQL versus NoSQL databases.
What are TSDBs?
Google Sheets and CSV files.
How to use live data.

Data is the cornerstone of any Internet of Things (IoT) platform. A data source, as its name implies, is the origin of all the data that Grafana uses. So, this is a very important subject for understanding the upcoming chapters.

Let’s see the meaning of data sources in the context of Grafana.

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