This is the code repository for Learn Grafana 7.0, published by Packt.
A beginner's guide to getting well versed in analytics, interactive dashboards, and monitoring
Grafana is an open-source analytical platform used to analyze and monitoring time-series data. This beginner's guide will help you get to grips with Grafana's new features for querying, visualizing, and exploring metrics and logs no matter where they are stored.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Find out how to visualize data using Grafana
- Understand how to work with the major components of the Graph panel
- Explore mixed data sources, query inspector, and time interval settings
- Discover advanced dashboard features such as annotations, templating with variables, dashboard linking, and dashboard sharing techniques
- Connect user authentication to Google, GitHub, and a variety of external services
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All of the code is organized into folders.
The code will look like the following:
def main():
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
Following is what you need for this book: This book is for business intelligence developers, business analysts, data analysts, and anyone interested in performing time-series data analysis and monitoring using Grafana. Those looking to create and share interactive dashboards or looking to get up to speed with the latest features of Grafana will also find this book useful. Although no prior knowledge of Grafana is required, basic knowledge of data visualization and some experience in Python programming will help you understand the concepts covered in the book.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-14).
| Software required | OS required |
|---|---|
| Grafana | Windows 10 Pro, Linux, Docker |
| Docker | Windows 10 Pro, or Linux |
| Loki/Promtail | Runs in Docker |
| Prometheus | Runs in Docker |
| InfluxDB | Runs in Docker |
| Logstash | Runs in Docker |
| Elasticsearch | Runs in Docker |
| OpenLDAP | Runs in Docker |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it
Eric Salituro is currently a senior software engineer with the enterprise data and analytics platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career that spans more than 30 years, over 20 of which were spent in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios such as DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar, helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a senior software developer. Among his accomplishments is the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards.
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