Eric Salituro - Learn Grafana 7.0: A beginners guide to getting well versed in analytics, interactive dashboards, and monitoring

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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.

imon Podlipsk is a software development engineer with a master's degree in management and software quality management from the University of Economics in Prague. His passion is contributing to open source software, including Grafana. He also maintains and develops the Grafana JSON data source, which you can try out yourself after finishing the book.

Hugh O'Brien is a 15-year veteran of cloud infrastructure and performance monitoring. He is Head of Infrastructure at Thrive Global and has previously worked at Zendesk, Jet.com and Intel. His presentation at Kafka Summit 2018 "ZFS: Better Living Through Filesystems" (viewable online) is basically just a sequence of Grafana screenshots. He has, for no discernible reason, used Grafana/Prometheus to instrument his home router (Wi-Fi RSSI as radar), android phone (XYZ accelerometery for activity detection), and soon his cars CAN bus (emissions, maybe?). He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from his hometown of Limerick, Ireland, and is the only living person who knows the origins of the 2.4GHz ISM band.

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Grafana is an open source analytics platform used to analyze and monitor 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, regardless of where they are stored.

This book begins by showing you how to install and set up the Grafana server. You'll explore the workings of various components of the Grafana interface, along with its security features, and you will learn how to visualize and monitor data using InfluxDB, Prometheus, Logstash, and Elasticsearch. This Grafana book covers the advanced features of the Graph panel and shows you how Stat , Table , Bar , Gauge , and Text are used. You'll build dynamic dashboards to perform end-to-end analytics and label and organize dashboards into folders to make them easier to find. As you progress through it, this book delves into the administrative aspects of Grafana by creating alerts, setting permissions for teams, and implementing user authentication. Along with exploring Grafana's multi-cloud monitoring support, you'll also learn about Grafana's Loki system, which is a backend logger for users running Prometheus and Kubernetes.

By the end of this book, you'll have gained all the knowledge you need to start building interactive dashboards.

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 with Python programming will help you understand the concepts covered in this book.