Grafana 5.0 and Graphite: Monitoring Metrics For DevOps
Grafana is a powerful framework which is used worldwide for its capability of creating and displaying modern dashboards. Paired with Graphite, an enterprise data collection and visualization system, it can visualize the critical information about your business, processes, infrastructure, applications and web sites. The information and metrics will be in front of your eyes on easy-to-understand and modern dashboards!
Duration: 25hrs
Prerequisites:
- Basic knowledge of using a Unix-based operating systems such as Ubuntu or RedHat
Course Content:
Introduction
- Introduction
- What is Grafana and how does it work?
- What is Graphite and why is it used with Grafana?
- Learn about StatsD
Installing Graphite, StatsD and Grafana 5.0 on Ubuntu
- Installing and configuring Graphite on Ubuntu
- Configuring Sampling Frequency and Retention Period
- Installing StatsD on Ubuntu
- Installing and configuring Grafana on Ubutu
Installing Graphite, StatsD and Grafana 5.0 on Windows
- Installing Graphite and StatsD on Windows
- Installing Grafana on Windows
Installing Graphite, StatsD and Grafana 5.0 on Mac
- Installing Graphite and StatsD on Mac
- Installing Grafana on Mac
Using Grafana
- Sending Metrics to StatsD and Graphite
- First look at Grafana 5.x
- Creating and Managing Dashboards
- Adding Data Sources: Connecting to Graphite
- Using the Graph panel
- Let's work on a project! Monitoring a web site!
- Exploring Graphite: Queries and Functions
- Preview
- Using the Singlestat panel
- Templates and variables in dashboards
- Using the Heatmap panel
- Using the Table panel
- Annotations
- Raising Alerts
- Text, Alert List, Dashboard List and Plugin List panels
Administration of Grafana
- Installing Plugins in Grafana
- Administering Grafana 5.0
Integration with DataSources
- Integration of Grafana with InfluxDB
- Integration of Grafana with MySQL
- Sending metrics from SQL Server to Grafana
- Integration of Grafana with Elasticsearch
- Integration of Grafana with AWS Cloudwatch
- Notifications (via Email)
- Configuring External Image Storage & Sending Notifications to Slack
