Introduction to Grafana

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Grafana is open source visualization and analytics software. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and explore your metrics no matter where they are stored. In plain English, it provides you with tools to turn your time-series database (TSDB) data into beautiful graphs and visualizations.

πŸ•° Timeline

00:00 - Holding screen
02:20 - Introductions
03:30 - What is Grafana?
07:00 - What was prepared upfront?
08:10 - Installing Grafana
09:45 - Login / Default authentication
10:50 - Adding data sources (InfluxDB and Prometheus)
15:40 - Exploring metrics
27:40 - Building Dashboards
36:15 - Alerting on metrics
51:30 - Importing a community dashboard from https://grafana.com/dashboards
53:08 - Explaining the different visualizations
58:20 - Closing

🌎 Resources

Marcus Olsson - https://twitter.com/marcusolsson
Grafana - https://grafana.com

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