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    Grafana

    📊 Grafana

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    Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. It enables users to create dynamic dashboards to visualize and analyze data from a variety of sources such as Prometheus, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and more.

    🌐 Project Homepage: Grafana
    📜 Documentation: Grafana Docs

    🔍 Overview

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    Grafana provides open-source tools for monitoring and observability. It allows you to create dynamic dashboards for visualizing and analyzing data across various data sources. Grafana integrates with services like Prometheus, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others.

    Why Use Grafana?

    • Data Visualization: Powerful dashboard creation with support for multiple data sources.

    • Alerting: Configure alerts based on data thresholds.

    • User Management: Fine-grained access control for team-based monitoring.

    🛠️ Features

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    Grafana comes with many features to enhance monitoring and alerting capabilities:

    • Dashboards: Create and share dashboards to visualize metrics and logs from various sources.

    • Data Source Integrations: Supports a wide range of data sources including Prometheus, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and more.

    • Alerting: Configure alerts on data thresholds and monitor systems in real time.

    • Plugins: Extend Grafana’s functionality with a rich library of plugins for panels, data sources, and apps.

    🌍 Explore More: Learn more about Grafana's features on the Grafana Docs.

    🏃 Getting Started

    Step 1: Install Grafana

    To install Grafana on your system, follow these commands for Ubuntu:

    sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grafana

    🌍 Explore More: For installation on other systems, check the Grafana Installation Guide.

    Step 2: Start Grafana Service

    Start Grafana as a service and enable it to run at startup:

    sudo systemctl start grafana-server
sudo systemctl enable grafana-server

    🌍 Explore More: Grafana service management and troubleshooting can be found on the Grafana Service Documentation.

    Step 3: Access the Dashboard

    By default, Grafana runs on port 3000. Open your browser and go to:

    http://localhost:3000

    Login using the default username admin and password admin.

    🌍 Explore More: Learn more about accessing and configuring Grafana on the Grafana UI Documentation.

    🔧 Customization and Configuration

    Step 4: Add Data Sources

    Grafana supports a variety of data sources. To add a data source:

    1. Open Grafana and go to Configuration > Data Sources.

    2. Select your data source (e.g., Prometheus, MySQL).

    3. Enter the necessary connection details and save the configuration.

    🌍 Explore More: Learn more about configuring data sources on the Grafana Data Sources Documentation.

    Step 5: Create Dashboards

    1. Click the + sign in the left sidebar and select Dashboard.

    2. Click Add Panel to start creating visualizations using your data.

    3. Customize the panel with the desired settings.

    🌍 Explore More: For detailed instructions on creating dashboards, visit the Grafana Dashboard Guide.

    • Prometheus Monitoring — Integrate Grafana with Prometheus to monitor systems.

    • InfluxDB — Use InfluxDB as a time-series database with Grafana for real-time analytics.

    • Alertmanager — Integrate Grafana with Alertmanager for alerting and notification management.

    For more information and advanced configurations, refer to the official Grafana documentation:

    📚 Tags

    • #Grafana

    • #Dashboards

    • #Monitoring

    • #Alerting

    • #Data-Visualization

    • #Prometheus

    • #MySQL

    • #PostgreSQL

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