(Ebook) Learn Grafana 10.x - Second Edition by Eric Salituro

(Ebook) Learn Grafana 10.x - Second Edition by Eric Salituro

Get ready to unlock the full potential of the open-source Grafana observability platform, ideal for analyzing and monitoring time-series data with this updated second edition. This beginner's guide will help you get up to speed with Grafana’s latest features for querying, visualizing, and exploring logs and metrics, no matter where they are stored. Starting with the basics, this book demonstrates how to quickly install and set up a Grafana server using Docker. You’ll then be introduced to the main components of the Grafana interface before learning how to analyze and visualize data from sources such as InfluxDB, Telegraf, Prometheus, Logstash, and Elasticsearch. The book extensively covers key panel visualizations in Grafana, including Time Series, Stat, Table, Bar Gauge, and Text, and guides you in using Python to pipeline data, transformations to facilitate analytics, and templating to build dynamic dashboards. Exploring real-time data streaming with Telegraf, Promtail, and Loki, you’ll work with observability features like alerting rules and integration with PagerDuty and Slack. As you progress, the book addresses the administrative aspects of Grafana, from configuring users and organizations to implementing user authentication with Okta and LDAP, as well as organizing dashboards into folders, and more. What you will learn    Learn the techniques of data visualization using Grafana    Get familiar with the major components of Time series visualization    Explore data transformation operations, query inspector, and time interval settings    Work with advanced dashboard features, such as annotations, variable-based templating, and dashboard linking and sharing    Connect user authentication through Okta, Google, GitHub, and other external providers    Discover Grafana’s monitoring support for cloud service infrastructures