Grafana - Setup and configuration#

Visualizing metrics with Grafana#

Grafana is a open source system, making it possible to display metrics data in a visually intriguing and efficient way. Done right, it can be of high value in troubleshooting situations. Or when in need of data for deciding where to use resources when performance optimizing.

Read more on Grafana in the official documentation.

Configuring your first Grafana dashboard#

1. Login to Grafana. By opening a browser in order to go to the URI of Grafana?.
2. Setup a data source. Which is from where Grafana will pull metrics.
   1. See this site for a helping hand on this.
3. Then read the rest of the beginners guide in order to get going in a breeze.
   1. Especially this video is informative and helpful in explaining how-to create a dashboard in Grafana.

There is great inspiration available if you go to the dashboard website Grafana provides. You really should :-). Also, the dashboard can be downloaded and used on your Grafana setup and customized to your needs.

Configuring an alert#

1. Login to Grafana. By opening a browser in order to go to the URI of Grafana?.
2. Find the graph onto which you want to attach an alarm.
3. Go to the Grafana alerting documentation in order to read up on how-to configure alarm rules and the ideas behind it.