Getting Started with Grafana : real-time dashboards for monitoring business operations.

Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Grafana Cloud
	Creating a Grafana Cloud Account
	A Quick Overview of the Grafana Interface
		Navigating Grafana
		Dashboards and Panels
		Dashboard Options
	Creating Your First Dashboard
		Adding Panels
		Working with Panels
	Logging Out of and In to Grafana
		Signing Out
			Signing In
	Summary
Chapter 2: Working with Panels
	Basic Unit of Data Visualization
	Understanding the “Edit Panel” View
		View Options
		Data Options
	Working with Data
		Panel Options
		Common Panel Options
	Panel Types
		Time Series
		Bar Chart
		Stat
		Gauge and Bar Gauge
		Table
		Pie Chart
		State Timeline and Status History
		Heatmap and Histogram
		Text
		Geomap
		Node Graph
		Others
	Finding Other Visualizations
	Summary
Chapter 3: Deploying Grafana Locally
	Linux
		Debian (Including Ubuntu)
		Red Hat (Including Fedora and CentOS)
		Other Linux
	Windows
	MacOS
	Docker
	Raspberry Pi
	Summary
Chapter 4: Connecting to Data Sources
	Managing Data Sources
		Testdata DB
		InfluxDB
			InfluxQL on Local InfluxDB
			Flux on InfluxDB Cloud
			Wrapping Up
		Prometheus
		Graphite
		MySQL
		PostgreSQL
		Loki
		Elasticsearch
	Installing Other Data Sources
	Summary
Chapter 5: User Administration
	User Roles
	Managing Users
		Adding or Removing Users
			Self-Managed Grafana
			Grafana Cloud
		Changing User Roles
		Teams
	Managing Permissions
	Grafana Organizations
	Summary
Chapter 6: Dashboard Design
	Choosing Data
		Audience
		Data
		Context
	Composing a Visualization
	Surfacing the Most Important Data First
	Adding More Context
	Exposing Detail with Rows
		Adding Rows
		Configuring and Deleting Rows
		Moving Rows
		Moving Panels In and Out of Rows
		Using Multiple Rows
	Organizing Dashboards
		Folders
		Tags
		Finding Dashboards
	Summary
Chapter 7: Workflow
	Overviews vs. Details
	Links
		Panel Links
		Data Links
	The Explore View
		Getting into the Explore View
		Using the Explore View
			Running Queries
			Updating Dashboards
			Comparing Data with the Split View
	Reusability with Library Panels
		Adding a Panel to the Library
		Using a Library Panel in a Dashboard
		Managing Library Panels
		Updating Library Panels
		Unlinking Library Panels
	Summary
Chapter 8: Working with Multiple Data Sources
	Side by Side
		Keeping Things Consistent
		Staying in Sync
	In-Panel
		The “Mixed” Data Source
		Dealing with Multiple Axes
	Calculating New Data
		Math with Expressions
		Math with the Add Field Transform
	Summary
Chapter 9: Advanced Panels
	Panel Overrides
		Adding Overrides
			Fields with Name
			Fields with Name Matching Regex
			Fields with Type
			Fields Returned by Query
		Using Override Properties
		Removing Overrides and Override Properties
	Transformations
		Managing Transformations
			Transformation Help
			Debug
			Enable/Disable Transformation
			Remove Transformation
			Move Transformation
		Commonly Used Transformations
			Add Field from Calculation
			Extract Fields
			Group By
			Merge
			Organize Fields
			Outer Join
			Reduce
	Summary
Chapter 10: Dashboard Variables
	Managing Variables
	Defining Variables
	More Advanced Variables
		Custom Variables
		Key/Value Pairs in Custom Variables
		Query Variables
		Data Source Variables
	Chaining Variables
	Repeating Panels with Variables
	Variables in URLs
		Passing Variables Between Dashboards
		Linking from External Tools
	Summary
Chapter 11: Alerting
	Alerting Configuration
		Alert Rules
		Contact Points
			Message Templates
			Contact Points
		Notification Policies
			Root Policy
			Specific Routing
			Mute Timings
		Silences
	Creating Alerts
		Rule Type
		Query to Be Alerted On
		Alert Conditions
		Alert Details
	Summary
Chapter 12: Advanced Deployment and Management
	External Grafana Databases
		MySQL/MariaDB
		PostgreSQL
	High Availability Deployments
	Image Rendering Service
		Deploying the Rendering Service
			Docker Image
			Standalone Node.js Application
		Configuring Grafana to Use the Remote Renderer
			Verifying Your Renderer
			Configuring Grafana
	Backup and Restore
		Backing Up
			SQLite (Default)
			MySQL
			PostgreSQL
		Restoring
			SQLite (Default)
			MySQL
			PostgreSQL
	Advanced Authentication
		LDAP and Active Directory
			Enabling LDAP
			Configuring LDAP
			Using LDAP
		OAuth
			Creating an OAuth Application
			Configuring OAuth in Grafana
			Using OAuth
	Summary
Chapter 13: Programmatic Grafana
	REST APIs
		Using a REST API Client
	Managing Grafana API Keys
		Adding API Keys
		Deleting API Keys
		Using API Keys
	The Grafana API
		Dashboards
			Getting Dashboards
			Creating or Updating Dashboards
			Deleting Dashboards
		Folders
			Listing Folders
			Getting Folder Information
			Creating Folders
			Updating Folders
			Deleting Folders
		Data Sources
			Listing Data Sources
			Getting Data Source Information
			Creating Data Sources
			Updating Data Sources
			Deleting Data Sources
		Miscellaneous
			Grafana Health
			URL Shortener
	Grafana Provisioning
		Provisioning Overview
		Data Sources
		Dashboards
	Summary
Chapter 14: Grafana Enterprise
	Enterprise Data Sources
	Enterprise Security
		Data Source Permissions
		Fine-Grained Access Control
	Enterprise Access and Authorization
		Enhanced LDAP
			LDAP Team Sync
			LDAP Active Sync
		SAML Support
	Scheduled Reporting
	Dashboard Insights
	Changing Grafana’s Appearance
	Summary
Index