Grafana

Grafana is an open source software written in go, 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. and notifications enables support for the following channels Email, Hipchat, Kafka, Line, Microsoft Teams, OpsGenie, Pagerduty, Prometheus Alertmanager, Pushover, Sensu, Slack, Telegram, Threema, VictorOps, Webhook.

Installation Grafana using docker containers

• 1) Execute: docker run -d --name=grafana -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana or brew install grafana
• 2) Open a web browser and point to http://localhost:3000/ (default username and password is "admin")

Binaries

• grafana-cli and grafana-server

Configuration files

• 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
3. Read Grafana source code: https://github.com/grafana/grafana
4. Review Grafana logs

See also

• Monitoring: Prometheus, Cacti, monit, munin, RRDtool, Zabbix, Netdata, Nagios, Check MK, Icinga, Pingdom, OpsGenie and Datadog, Opsgenie, PRTG, Checkmk
• Kibana and ElasticSearch

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