Getting Started with Grafana: Real-Time Dashboards for Monitoring Business Operations (True EPUB, MOBI)

This book teaches you how to begin working with the Grafana data visualization platform. It’s a “how-to manual” for deploying and administering Grafana, creating real-time dashboards and alerts, exploring the data you have, and even synthesizing new data by combining and manipulating data from multiple different sources. You’ll be able to see and manage data on any scale, from your laptop or a Raspberry Pi to a production datacenter or even a multi-region cloud environment!

Getting Started with Grafana takes a hands-on approach. You’ll learn by doing with easy-to-follow examples along with pointers to more resources to help you go deeper. The skills you’ll learn will help you provide real business value by monitoring your operations in real time and reacting to changing circumstances as they occur. You’ll be able to derive new insights from your existing data through Grafana’s powerful and beautiful graphing capabilities, and you’ll be able to share your dashboards with colleagues so everyone in your organization can benefit.

What You Will Learn

Connect to data “where it lives” and work with multiple sources of data
Build beautiful and informative dashboards that show real-time status
Deploy Grafana at any scale and be able to manage it efficiently
Integrate with other enterprise systems such as LDAP or Active Directory
Automate creation and deployment of Grafana, dashboards, and alerts
Understand what is available in the Enterprise version of Grafana

Who This Book Is For

Getting Started with Grafana is for anyone who has data that they want to be able to understand visually. It’s for IT professionals who work with multiple sources of data on a regular basis and need to be able to make sense of the confusion that this data sprawl causes. Getting Started with Grafana is for people who learn best by doing and want to get hands on quickly with a project and then be able to grow their knowledge as they need.