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Getting Started with Grafana

Real-Time Dashboards for IT and Business Operations

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Authors:

  1. Ronald McCollam

    1. Somerville, USA

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  • Shows you how to extract business value from corporate data

  • Helps you become a trusted advisor within your organization

  • Provides guidance for good visualization design

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
    PDF

  2. Getting Started

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      PDF

    2. Grafana Cloud

      • Ronald McCollam
      Pages 3-17

    3. Working with Panels

      • Ronald McCollam
      Pages 19-41

  3. Deploying and Managing Grafana

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
      PDF

    2. Deploying Grafana Locally

      • Ronald McCollam
      Pages 45-87

    3. Connecting to Data Sources

      • Ronald McCollam
      Pages 89-130

    4. User Administration

      • Ronald McCollam
      Pages 131-152

  4. Making Things Useful

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
      PDF

    2. Dashboard Design

      • Ronald McCollam
      Pages 155-177

    3. Workflow

      • Ronald McCollam
      Pages 179-199

    4. Working with Multiple Data Sources

      • Ronald McCollam
      Pages 201-213

    5. Advanced Panels

      • Ronald McCollam
      Pages 215-241

    6. Dashboard Variables

      • Ronald McCollam
      Pages 243-263

    7. Alerting

      • Ronald McCollam
      Pages 265-281

  5. Advanced Grafana

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 283-283
      PDF

    2. Advanced Deployment and Management

      • Ronald McCollam
      Pages 285-310

    3. Programmatic Grafana

      • Ronald McCollam
      Pages 311-337

    4. Grafana Enterprise

      • Ronald McCollam
      Pages 339-354

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 355-365
    PDF
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About this book

Begin working with the Grafana data visualization platform. This book is 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 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 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

Anyone who has data that they want to understand visually, IT professionals who work with multiple sources of data on a regular basis and need to make sense of the confusion that this data sprawl causes, and people who learn best by doing and want to get hands-on experience quickly with a project and then grow their knowledge
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Keywords

  • Alerting
  • Charts
  • Dashboards
  • Visualizations
  • Distributed Traces
  • Learn Grafana
  • InfluxDB
  • Observability
  • Real Time Data
  • Streaming Data
  • Grafana Cloud
  • Grafana Enterprise
  • Splunk
  • Domo
  • Prometheus
  • Graphite
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Somerville, USA

    Ronald McCollam

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About the author

Ronald McCollam is a “geek of all trades” with experience ranging from full stack development to IT operations management. He has a strong background in open source software dating back to when a stack of 3.5” Slackware floppies was the easy way to install Linux. When not on the road for work or in his lab building robots that can operate a Ouija board, Ronald resides on his back porch in Somerville, MA with a frosty beverage in hand.
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eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4842-8309-7
  • Instant PDF download
  • Readable on all devices
  • Own it forever
  • Exclusive offer for individuals only
  • Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout
Softcover Book USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
Learn about institutional subscriptions