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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803231082

Length 542 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Grafana

Concepts

Data Visualization

Author (1):

Eric Salituro

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

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

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Generating data series in the Query tab

Let’s take a closer look at the Query tab, also called the Query Editor. To open a panel editor, click on the panel title and select Edit from the pulldown menu. If it isn’t already selected, click on the Query tab to select it. The Query tab is where we assign a data source to the panel’s queries. We’ll take a closer look at the Query tab shortly.

With TestData set as the default data source, Grafana also sets up Random Walk to be the default query scenario, so we are now ready to go with both a data source and a scenario that produces the displayed dataset series.

Before we delve further into the Query tab, we should probably talk a bit about its purpose. Unlike some visualization tools that are designed to connect to a single data source, Grafana is data source-agnostic. The Grafana data source plugins are not only responsible for presenting the Grafana user with a simplified query interface but also for structuring...