Download or read book End-to-End Observability with Grafana written by Ajay Reddy Yeruva and published by BPB Publications. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visualize, analyze, and optimize your data with Grafana KEY FEATURES ● Explore AIOps monitoring with Grafana for optimized operations and proactive decision making. ● Discover how to conduct performance testing using Grafana. ● Master the art of designing Grafana dashboards and visualizations. DESCRIPTION Grafana, a popular open-source observability platform, provides robust tools for analyzing and visualizing data from diverse sources. If you are looking to unlock its full potential as a data visualization and monitoring platform, then this book is for you. This book offers a comprehensive insight into the capabilities of Grafana and empowers you to leverage this powerful tool to its fullest extent. It provides you with the knowledge and skills necessary to create impressive visualizations, establish dashboards, and optimize monitoring processes. The book will help you delve into various aspects of Grafana, including its interface, utilizing the Graph Panel for visualizing data, connecting it to data sources, organizing dashboards, harnessing advanced features, and exploring additional functionalities like Grafana Loki for log exploration and managing authorization and authentication. Furthermore, the book explores specific use cases such as blackbox exporter, synthetic monitoring, Kubernetes monitoring, AIOps monitoring, and maximizing Grafana plugins. It concludes by presenting best practices for working with Grafana and offering insights into setting up performance testing and engineering dashboards. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to unlock its full potential as a data visualization and monitoring platform. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Learn how to create visually appealing dashboards and panels using Grafana. ● Gain the ability to track and optimize application performance, ensuring an enhanced user experience. ● Utilize Grafana to record and analyze system applications. ● Track and analyze unique metrics for customized performance monitoring insights. ● Set up Grafana alerts and email notifications to receive timely notifications about critical events and anomalies. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is suitable for professionals in DevSecOps, Performance Testing, Site Reliability, AIOps, MLOps, Platform, Development, and Test Engineering teams. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction to Data Visualization with Grafana 2. A Tour of the Grafana Interface 3. An Introduction to the Graph Panel 4. Connecting Grafana to a Data Source 5. Visualizing Data in the Graph Panel 6. Creating Your First Dashboard 7. Visualization Panels in Grafana 8. Organizing Dashboards 9. Grafana Alerting 10. Working with Advanced Dashboard Features 11. Exploring Logs with Grafana Loki 12. Managing Authorization and Authentication 13. Blackbox Exporter 14. Synthetic Monitoring 15. Maximizing the Grafana Plug-in 16. Kubernetes Monitoring 17. Grafana Cloud 18. AIOps Monitoring 19. Dashboard Setup for Performance Testing and Engineering 20. Best Practices of Working with Grafana