Introduction to Grafana

Intro to Grafana

What is Grafana

• Grafana is a data visualization, analytics and alerting platform
• Interactive dashboards can be created in Grafana for this purpose

Grafana use cases

• Visualize data from multiple data sources in a single platform
• Create dashboards that update in real-time
• Generate real-time alerts by continuously monitoring data from data sources
• Enable users without coding skills to build, share and collaborate visualizations and dashboards in a central location
• Create an interactive data exploration and analytics platform
• Avoid licensing costs opensource data analytics platform

Main Components of Grafana dashboards

• Panels - Display data
• Data Source - Provide data to panels
• Plugins - Add more panels and data sources
• Transformations - New data from existing data based on calculations
• Alerts - Alerts from data based on user-defined conditions

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References

• Grafana showcase - https://grafana.com/grafana
• Grafana playground - https://play.grafana.org