Grafana is a powerful open source software that helps you to visualize and analyze data gathered from various sources. It allows you to share valuable information through unclouded dashboards, run analytics, and send notifications.
Building IoT Visualizations Using Grafana offers how-to procedures, useful resources, and advice that will help you to implement IoT solutions with confidence. You’ll begin by installing and configuring Grafana according to your needs. Next, you’ll acquire the skills needed to implement your own IoT system using communication brokers, databases, and metric management systems, as well as integrate everything with Grafana. You’ll learn to collect data from IoT devices and store it in databases, as well as discover how to connect databases to Grafana, make queries, and build insightful dashboards. Finally, the book will help you implement analytics for visualizing data, performing automation, and delivering notifications.
By the end of this Grafana book, you’ll be able to build insightful dashboards, perform analytics, and deliver notifications that apply to IoT and IT systems.
publication date
2022-07-27
what you will learn
Install and configure Grafana in different types of environments
Enable communication between your IoT devices using different protocols
Build data sources by ingesting data from IoT devices
Gather data from Grafana using different types of data sources
Build actionable insights using plugins and analytics
Deliver notifications across several communication channels
Integrate Grafana with other platforms
key features
Connect devices, store and manage data, and build powerful data visualizations * Integrate Grafana with other systems, such as Prometheus, OpenSearch, and LibreNMS * Learn about message brokers and data forwarders to send data from sensors and systems to different platforms
approach
This book provides complete coverage of using Grafana for insights and analytics in IoT and IT projects. With the help of essential concepts, you will learn to connect different types of data sources, query data, build dashboards, and use different types of plugins and analytics to deliver the required insights and notifications.
audience
This book is for IoT developers who want to build powerful visualizations and analytics for their projects and products. Technicians from the embedded world looking to learn how to build systems and platforms using open source software will also benefit from this book. If you have an interest in technology, IoT, open source, and related subjects then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of administration tasks on Linux-based systems, IP networks and network services, protocols, ports, and related topics will help you make the most out of this book.
short description
Grafana is a great software for IoT monitoring, and many developers are learning to use Grafana for IoT and IT monitoring. This book shows you how to connect your devices, store data, manage metrics, and build powerful visualizations using Grafana, along with introducing you to the world of IoT platforms.
subtitle
Power up your IoT projects and monitor with Prometheus, LibreNMS, and Elasticsearch
keywords
Grafana, IOT visualizations, IOT, IOT developers, Installing Grafana, Analytics, Prometheus
Product ISBN
9781803236124
