Grafana

Grafana is an open source software written in go first released in 2014, feature rich metrics dashboard, alerting and graph editor for CloudWatch, ElasticSearch, Grafana Logging, Graphite, InfluxDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, OpenTSDB, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Google Stackdriver and TestData DB.

Alerting is supported in the following datasources Graphite, Prometheus, Elasticsearch (since version 5.2), InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, MySQL, Postgres and Cloudwatch.

Notifications enables support for the following channels Discord, Email, Hipchat, Kafka, Line, Microsoft Teams, OpsGenie, Pagerduty, Prometheus Alertmanager, Pushover, RocketChat, Sensu, Slack, Telegram, Threema, VictorOps, Webhook.

Features:

• Annotations
• Notifications

Installation Grafana using docker containers

• 1) Execute:

Basic, no data persistence: docker run -d --name=grafana -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana

or brew install grafana

docker-compose.yml (Grafana)

• 2) Open a web browser and point to http://localhost:3000/ (default username and password is "admin")
• 3) Kubernetes: helm install MY GRAFANA NAME stable/grafana

Login with username and password: admin

Binaries

• grafana-cli and grafana-server

Configuration files

• /etc/grafana/grafana.ini

Usage

Grafana is widely used including by wikipedia foundation

Activities

1. Review Wikimedia Grafana graphs: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/?orgId=1
2. Read Grafana Changelog. Major ~ 1 year, minor ~ 1 month
3. Read Grafana source code: https://github.com/grafana/grafana
4. Review Grafana logs
5. review https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/grafana?tab=Votes

Related terms

• Node.js
• Prometheus: prometheus node exporter
• Elasticsearch
• Grafana Enterprise
• Dashboards: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards
• Amazon Managed service for Grafana (Aug 2021)
• Grafana OnCall

See also

• Monitoring: Prometheus, Cacti, monit, munin, RRDtool, Zabbix, Netdata, Nagios, Check MK, Icinga, Pingdom, OpsGenie and Datadog, Opsgenie, PRTG, Checkmk
• Elastic: ELK, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Installation, AWS Elasticsearch, Elastic SIEM, Elastic Beats, metricbeat, filebeat, journalbeat, Elastisearch Service , Search guard, Elasticsearch logs, curator, ILM, Lumberjack protocol, aws_elasticsearch_domain, KQL, elasticsearch.yml, elasticsearch-plugin, elasticsearch-certutil, Elasticsearch release notes/changelog
• Grafana, Grafana datasources, Grafana Alerting, Grafana installation, Grafana Labs, Grafana Changelog, Grafana logs, docker-compose.yml (Grafana), Grafana Loki, Grafana Tanka, StatsD and Graphite, grafana-cli, Loki, LogQL, Grafana Enterprise, Grafana Cloud, Grafana alerts, Amazon Grafana, Grafana OnCall, Grafana Tempo, Grafana Mimir, Grafana agent, plugins, Terraform, Grafana dashboards, /etc/grafana/grafana.ini, Grafana Pyroscope

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Source: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/System_administration/Grafana