Best practices and troubleshooting for the Grafana stack
As with the previous section, the importance of preparation applies to the Grafana stack, as it does with any good system design. You are making decisions that affect your users, your data, and your costs. In this section, we’ll be sharing some best practices for preparing Grafana, together with some useful tips for debugging. Let’s first look at preparation activities for your Grafana stack.
Preparing the Grafana stack
When designing your platform, consider what you are sending there and who your users are. With your stack, it is important to consider wider subjects such as corporate authentication integration, as well as best endeavors to right-size your stack and implement processes to monitor that usage.
Ideally, you want to be able to answer the following questions:
- Who needs to use the platform?
- Where are they using the platform?
- What data retention requirements exist (if any)? ...
