Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. With Grafana, you can:
- Visualize data: Create dashboards with various charts, graphs, and tables to represent your data.
- Support multiple data sources: Connect to popular data sources like Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, and more.
- Explore and query data: Use query builders and explore features to examine your data in real-time.
- Set alerts and notifications: Define thresholds and receive notifications when your data exceeds them.
- Collaborate with others: Share dashboards and data with your team or organization.
Key Use Cases:
- Monitoring Infrastructure: Track server performance, CPU usage, memory, and disk space.
- Application Performance: Visualize application metrics, errors, and latency.
- Logging and Log Analytics: Analyze log data from various sources.
- Real-time Analytics: Display real-time data for IoT, finance, and other applications.
- Cloud Monitoring: Monitor cloud resources, such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Network Monitoring: Track network traffic, bandwidth, and device performance.
- Database Performance: Monitor database queries, performance, and health.
- Error Tracking and Alerting: Set up alerts for errors, exceptions, and anomalies.
- Business Intelligence: Visualize business metrics, sales, and customer data.
- IoT Data Visualization: Display data from IoT devices and sensors.
Installation
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove grafana # Remove any old version of Grafana first
sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1
sudo wget https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana_6.7.3_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_6.7.3_amd64.deb
sudo vim /etc/grafana/grafana.ini# The http port to use http_port = 4000
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable grafana-server
sudo systemctl start grafana-serverTo start the service
sudo systemctl start grafana-serverTo stop the service
sudo systemctl stop grafana-server