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Learn Grafana 7.0

You're reading from   Learn Grafana 7.0 A beginner's guide to getting well versed in analytics, interactive dashboards, and monitoring

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826581
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eric Salituro Eric Salituro
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Grafana
2. Introduction to Data Visualization with Grafana FREE CHAPTER 3. A Tour of the Grafana Interface 4. An Introduction to the Graph Panel 5. Real-World Grafana
6. Connecting Grafana to a Data Source 7. Visualizing Data in the Graph Panel 8. Visualization Panels in Grafana 9. Creating Your First Dashboard 10. Working with Advanced Dashboard Features 11. Grafana Alerting 12. Exploring Logs with Grafana Loki 13. Managing Grafana
14. Organizing Dashboards 15. Managing Permissions for Users and Teams 16. Authentication with External Services 17. Cloud Monitoring 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Geolocating data on the Worldmap panel

Up until now, we've been exclusively using graph panels that are available on Grafana out of the box. We're going to mix things up a little by bringing in a new plugin panel and visualizing a new dataset.

There are two mechanisms for installing a new plugin—the grafana-cli command-line tool and an environment variable setting in the Grafana configuration. Because we can easily do it in Docker Compose at the same time as we launch the service, we're going to opt for the second method. All that is required is to set the GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS environment variable to the list of desired plugins in our docker-compose.yml file and restart Grafana.

In order to visualize the location of earthquakes around the world, we'll need to install a Worldmap plugin panel.

  1. Check the Grafana plugin directory at https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins to lead you to the Worldmap panel.
  2. Click on...
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