Grafana
Welcome to my course on Grafana! Grafana is an analytics platform for all of your metrics. Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data driven culture. Trusted and loved by the community. This is a Learn by example course, where I demonstrate all the concepts discussed so that you can see them working, and you can try them out for yourself as well.
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With this course, comes accompanying documentation that you can access for free. You will then be able to match what you see in the videos and copy/paste directly from my documentation and see the same result.
In this course we will:
Install Grafana from Packages
Create a domain name, install an SSL certificate and change the default port
Explore the Graph, Stat, Gauge, Bar Gauge, Table, Text, Heatmap and Logs Panels
Create many different types of Data Sources from MySQL, Zabbix, InfluxDB, Prometheus and Loki
We will configure their various collection processes such as MySQL Event Scheduler, Telegraf, Node Exporters, SNMP agents and Promtail
We will look at graphing Time Series data versus Non Time Series data
We will also install dashboards for each of the Data Sources, experimenting with community created dashboards plus experimenting with our own
We will monitor SNMP Devices using Telegraf Agent and InfluxDB Data Sources
We will create Annotation Queries and link the Log and Graphs panels together
We will look at Dynamic Dashboard Variables, Dynamic Tables, Dynamic Stats and Dynamic Graphs
We will look at creating Value Groups/Tags and how to use them with different kinds of data sources
We will set up an alerting channel, understand the different alerting options, configure an example of it to detect offline SNMP devices and demonstrate receiving email alerts via our local SMTP server
We will then create a dashboard for a 24 port Cisco Switch using methods applicable to both the Zabbix and the InfluxDB Data Sources
At the end of the course, you will have your own dedicated working Grafana Server, which will be in the cloud, with SSL, a domain name, with many example Data Sources and collectors configured, that you can call your own, ready for you to take it to the next level.
Once again, this is a Learn by example course, with all the example commands available for you to copy and paste. I demonstrate them working, and you will be able to do that to.
You are now ready to continue.
Thanks for taking part in my course, and i'll see you there.
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| # | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | 02:37 |
| 2 | Install Grafana | 11:48 |
| 3 | Upgrade/Downgrade Grafana | 04:10 |
| 4 | Point Domain Name | 05:00 |
| 5 | Reverse Proxy Grafana with Nginx | 06:12 |
| 6 | Add SSL | 06:58 |
| 7 | Create out First Data Source | 03:24 |
| 8 | Panel Rows | 01:55 |
| 9 | Panel Presentation Options | 03:48 |
| 10 | Dashboard Versioning | 02:06 |
| 11 | Graph Panel : Visualisation Options | 18:10 |
| 12 | Graph Panel : Overrides | 04:06 |
| 13 | Graph Panel : Transformations | 04:39 |
| 14 | Stat Panel | 04:23 |
| 15 | Gauge Panel | 01:27 |
| 16 | Bar Gauge Panel | 01:06 |
| 17 | Table Panel | 06:55 |
| 18 | Create MySQL Data Source, Collector and Dashboard | 22:16 |
| 19 | Create a Custom MySQL Time Series Query | 10:51 |
| 20 | Graphing Non Time Series SQL Data in Grafana | 06:16 |
| 21 | Install Loki Binary and Start as a Service | 10:03 |
| 22 | Install Promtail Binary and Start as a Service | 06:13 |
| 23 | LogQL | 18:03 |
| 24 | Install a Second Promtail Service | 16:46 |
| 25 | Annotation Queries Linking the Log and Graph Panels | 05:43 |
| 26 | Read Nginx Logs with Promtail | 13:12 |
| 27 | Install Prometheus Service and Data Source | 05:39 |
| 28 | Install Prometheus Dashboard | 04:39 |
| 29 | Setup Grafana Metrics Prometheus Dashboard | 06:03 |
| 30 | Install Second Prometheus Node Exporter | 07:34 |
| 31 | Install InfluxDB Server and Data Source | 08:38 |
| 32 | Install Telegraf Agent and Configure for InfluxDB | 07:55 |
| 33 | Install A Dashboard For Default InfluxDB/Telegraf Metrics | 04:07 |
| 34 | Install SNMP Agent and Configure Telegraf SNMP Input | 09:16 |
| 35 | Add Multiple SNMP Devices to Telegraf Config | 06:28 |
| 36 | Import SNMP Dashboard that uses InfluxDB and Telegraf | 04:45 |
| 37 | Create and Configure a Zabbix Data Source | 05:14 |
| 38 | Import Zabbix Dashboards | 06:24 |
| 39 | Course Update Notice | 00:33 |
| 40 | Elasticsearch Data Source and Database | 12:28 |
| 41 | Setup Elasticsearch Filebeat | 10:14 |
| 42 | Setup Elasticseach Metricbeat | 13:03 |
| 43 | Setup an Advanced Elasticsearch Dashboard | 08:02 |
| 44 | Dashboard Variables | 06:59 |
| 45 | Dynamic Table from Variables | 04:33 |
| 46 | Dynamic Singlestats from Variables | 02:33 |
| 47 | Dynamic Graphs from Variables | 03:50 |
| 48 | Create an Email Alert Notification Channel | 04:12 |
| 49 | Create Alerts for SNMP No Data | 07:07 |
| 50 | Create a Custom Webhook Alert Notification Channel for SMS using AWS SNS | 08:30 |
| 51 | Create Telegram Bot Alert Channel | 04:20 |
| 52 | Value Groups/Tags with the Zabbix Data Source | 05:53 |
| 53 | Value Groups/Tags with the InfluxDB/Telegraf Data Source | 12:19 |
| 54 | Create a Cisco Switch Dashboard from the Zabbix Data Source | 06:10 |
| 55 | Create a Cisco Switch Dashboard from the InfluxDB/Telegraf Data Source | 05:32 |
| 56 | Disk Read/Write Rates Dashboard with the Zabbix Data Source | 09:11 |