Advanced Grafana

• Basic understanding and experience of Grafana
• Knowledge of data analytics

Audience

• Data analysts
• System administrators

Grafana is a visualization and metric analytic suite that provides tools for creating a visual representation of real-time data for application analytics.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level data analysts who wish to learn and utilize the advanced features and components of Grafana for data visualization and analysis.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Gain an in-depth understanding of advanced Grafana concepts and components.
• Leverage template variables and dynamic dashboards for enhanced data visualization.
• Use Grafana Query Language for complex queries.
• Learn best practices for scaling Grafana, optimizing performance, and ensuring high availability.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction

• Overview of Grafana
• Review of Grafana basic concepts

Getting Started

• Installing Grafana
• Upgrading Grafana
• Exploring Grafana UI

Templating and Variables

• Understanding the concept of template variables
• Creating dynamic dashboards using variables
• Variable queries for advanced filtering

Advanced Querying Techniques

• Writing complex queries with Grafana Query Language
• Advanced data manipulation
• Exploring advanced query features

Alerting and Annotations

• Setting up alerts based on metric thresholds
• Using advanced alert rules and notifications
• Adding contextual information to dashboards

Customizing and Extending Grafana

• Dashboard templating
• Using panel plugins and custom visualizations
• Using Grafana API and provisioning
• Authentication and authorization

Monitoring and Scaling Grafana

• Scaling Grafana
• Configuring Grafana with load balancers
• Implementing clustering and replication
• Optimizing performance
• Grafana security

Best Practices

Summary and Next Steps