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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

Connecting Grafana to a Prometheus Data Source

In previous chapters, we took a whirlwind tour of the Grafana UI. We looked at how graph panel visualizations query for datasets via data sources and how panels can be arranged to form dashboard pages.

In this chapter, we will begin to apply our newly gained skills to more practical considerations. We will use real data where possible, to try to analyze data with a focus on solving real-world scenarios and create the kind of comprehensive dashboards you would expect to see in a production environment.

Our first step in this journey begins (as always) with data. Here, we will configure a live database serving actual web service data (generated first by Prometheus, then by Grafana itself!). We’ll pull that data into Grafana as a data source, then we’ll use the Explore tool to get a feel for what kinds of metrics are available. We’ll also look at visualizing the data through a variety of queries. Finally, we’...

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