Streaming Real-Time IoT Data from Telegraf Agent to Grafana Live
In this chapter, we’re going to dip a toe into the exciting world of observability. While you’ve probably heard that observability is currently one of the hottest fields in IT, you may be wondering what it is, and how Grafana supports it. Here is a definition of observability from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_observability):
This is a little bit abstract, so let me offer my refinement:
Observability is the practice of collecting metrics data from telemetered systems, scanning, detecting, and alerting on anomalous behavior, and distributing state metrics at an appropriate frequency for analysis.
This divides observability into three core functions:
- Metrics collection
- Alerting
- Data distribution...