Grafana
Introduction
Grafana is an open-source platform for data visualization and monitoring. It is a powerful tool that helps businesses and organizations to gain insights into their data by creating beautiful and interactive dashboards, alerts, and visualizations. In this blog post, we will explore what Grafana is, how it works, and why it is a popular choice for data visualization.
Sending Metrics to Grafana Cloud
How to Collect your own Premetheus exporter metrics to Grafana Cloud with Grafana agent?
Install Grafana Agent
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings/
wget -q -O - https://apt.grafana.com/gpg.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg > /dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg] https://apt.grafana.com stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grafana-agent
add scrape_configs
Assume you have grafana agent installed on your server and your own Premetheus exporter run on 127.0.0.1:5000/metrics, edit /etc/grafana-agent.yaml and add the following configs after scrape_configs
scrape_configs:
- job_name: 'My-Own-Metrics'
static_configs:
- targets: ['127.0.0.1:5000']
Then restart grafana agent, you’ll see your own metrics in grafana cloud.
sudo systemctl status grafana-agent.service
References
- Official Grafana website:
https://grafana.com/ - Grafana documentation:
https://grafana.com/docs/ - Grafana plugins repository:
https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins - Grafana community forum:
https://community.grafana.com/ - Grafana GitHub repository:
https://github.com/grafana/grafana - Grafana YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/GrafanaLabs - Grafana Labs blog:
https://grafana.com/blog/ - Grafana Tutorials and Resources:
https://grafana.com/tutorials/ https://tecadmin.net/how-to-setup-prometheus-and-grafana-on-ubuntu/https://grafana.com/docs/agent/latest/static/set-up/install/install-agent-linux/https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/2.34/configuration/configuration/#scrape_config