Grafana Master Course - Time Series Data Visualization

Introduction to AWS EC2 Instance

Creating new EC2 instance with CentOS Operating System

Configuring security groups and private key to login

Setup and configure putty to login to EC2 Instance

Login to EC2 instance by opening ports for required IP address

Configure Grafana repository

Installing Grafana using yum

Start Grafana service

Opening the required port

Verifying installation

Creating test Data Source

Create a new Dashboard

Create random walk graph

Overview of Docker

Docker port mapping overview

Configure docker repo file and installation

Running docker

Verifying running container

Opening required port to access docker container

Access Grafana running within the container

Run Graphite container

Map required ports of container to host ports

Verify Graphite installation

Access Graphite web application

Add test metric using Netcat

Verify the added metric within Graphite

Configure and Test Graphite Data Source

Create a new dashboard using Graphite Data Source

Access default metric from Carbon Storage

Install collectd data collector using yum

Overview of collectd configuration plugin

Enable required plugin for log and Graphite

Configure Graphite plugin configuration

Start collectd service

Verifying collectd metrics in Graphite Data Source

Basic concepts of Metric

Discussion Metric Tuple - Name, Value, and Timestamp

Metric and Time-series relation

Data Source Introduction

Data Source connection details

Reading data from Data Source

Data Source configuration in Grafana

Mapping of Dashboard and Panel mapping to Datasource

Dashboard and Panel Timeframe

Dashboard Rows and Columns

Panel arrangements within Dashboards

Introduction to Panels

Panels arrangements in Dashboard

Types of Panels

Timerange for Panels

Creating graph panel using sample data

Configuring visualization like Draw modes, mode options, Hover tooltip, Stacking

Changing the legend

Selecting and unselecting the series for visualization

Adding more data series to graph

Configuring X and Y-Axis

General settings like Title, Description, and Transparency

Introduction to Singlestat panel

Purpose of Singlestat panel

Customizing the visualization of values, coloring and Spark lines

Setting the thresholds

Threshold coloring options

Configuring it as Gauge

Value or Range mapping to Text

Purpose of Table Panel

Creating a sample Table Panel

Different Table Transformation

Column and Row style options

Setting the threshold

Threshold coloring of value, cells or rows

Time Series Aggregation Eg: Average, Minimum, Maximum, Current, Total, Count, etc.,

Table add column settings

Rendering value as a link

Creating sample Gauge

Purpose of Gauge panel

Configuring display, Field and Threshold

Various type of calculations like Minimum, Maximum, Mean, Count, Range, Delta, Step, etc.

Configuring threshold coloring

Adding more threshold ranges

Value or Range to Text mapping

Creating bar gauge visualization

Purpose of bar gauge visualization

Difference between normal gauge and bar gauge

Adding more threshold ranges

Different modes and orientation of bar gauges

Value or Range to text mapping

Creating load to the system

Creating Heatmap Panel

Purpose of Heatmap Panel

Histogram and Bucket concepts in X and Y Axis

Configuring Display colors, Scale, legend, and Buckets

Tooltip with histogram

Different color scheme

Importance and need of using Log scale in Y axis

Panel graph with Y Log Scale

Visually seeing the difference between linear and Y Log scale

Detailed view and relatively comparing the small values with large values.

Avoiding domination of a single metric

Dashboard Time range options

Quick range time selection

Custom range time selection

Time range supported units

Displaying entire period of hour, week, day, month etc.,

Discussing different time range samples

Panel over riding time range

Panel Relative time

Panel Time Shift

Using Time Shift and Relative time together

Configuring Auto refresh options

Relative now delay configuration

Introduction and Purpose of Alerts

Architecture and Alert trigger mechanism

Supported Data source

Creating the alerts in panels

Setting rules and Conditions

Reason to avoid False positive values

Different states of alerts

Overview on Error handling and notification

Different alert states

State change between Ok, Pending and Alerting

What makes the state to change

Purpose of 'For' and 'Evaluate every' Option

Sample panel with various state changes

Using Various Conditions

Condition sequencing

Different calculation for conditions like max, min, avg, count etc.,

Using the query with timeframe

Using conditions like 'is above', 'is below' , 'is outside range', 'is within range'

No Data and Error Handing State change

Listing alerting rules

Filtering alerting rules

Pausing alerts

Setting new notification channel

Notification configuration

Using notification channel as part of alerts

Create panel with list of alerts

Configure panel with options and filter

Filtering alerts based on State

Need and importance of Variables

Different types of variables

Creating a query variable

Use variable in title and Description

Variable interpolation

Multiple option selection in variables

Need of Interval variable

Creating Interval variable

Using variables with Interval

Using variable with Relative time and time shift

Need for Data source variable

Creating Data source variable

Demo with Data source variable

Purpose of Grafana Annotations

Adding new annotations and Tags

Creating new area annotation

Managing annotations

Setting annotation filters

Configure annotation legend and properties

Creating new annotation query

Adding filters for annotation query

Controlling annotation properties

Enabling and hiding annotations

Creating a new dashboard folder

Managing dashboard folders

Folder permission overview

Folder settings

Purpose of Grafana Playlist

Creating a new playlist

Managing Grafana playlist

Preview and delete the playlist

Managing dashboards within a playlist

Different play modes of the playlist

Need for dashboard sharing

Creating a shareable link for Grafana dashboard

Creating a dashboard snapshot and advantages of snapshots

Managing list of snapshots

List, View and delete snapshots

Export dashboard as JSON model

Import external dashboard into Grafana

Manage versions of Grafana dashboard

Comparing different versions of a dashboard

Restoring an older version of a dashboard

Visually compare different versions of Grafana

Overview of various configuration files like defaults.ini and custom.ini

Various sections in the configuration file

Setting environmental variable for configuration key

Different default paths and settings

Organization and users mapping within Grafana

Adding and managing users

Adding and managing Organization

Mapping users to multiple organization

Organization and Data Source relation

Editing users, password, permission, organization, etc.,

Introduction and purpose of the scripted dashboard

Overview of sample scripted dashboard

Co-relate dashboard with JSON model

Create a new dashboard with a sample script

Verify newly created dashboard

Introduction to Grafana Plugins

Installing a sample plugin

Verify Annotation list plugin

Create a panel with custom plugin

List of installed custom plugins

Update custom plugins

Remove a plugin