Objective
- Prerequisites: It is assumed that the participants know how to administer and operate PRTG Network Monitor or have previously participated in the course PEUP01 – The Core of PRTG.
- Duration: 8 hours.
- Description:
Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources. It is expandable through a plug-in system. End users can create complex monitoring dashboards using interactive query builders.
As a visualization tool, Grafana is a popular component in monitoring stacks, often used in combination with time series databases such as InfluxDB, Prometheus and Graphite and monitoring platforms such as PRTG.
We have designed this training so that students can learn how to expand PRTG’s monitoring by delivering historic data to Grafana for visualization. Grafana is also introduced going over topics such as installation, plugin use and dashboards creation.
Content and details
Content and details
- Introduction to Grafana:
- Grafana installation and administration
- Users and roles
- First login and view customization
- Dashboards and panels – visualizations
- Datasources and plugins
- First example – MS SQL Server as a datasource
- PRTG integration – the plugin:
- PRTG Plugin installation
- Understanding PRTG historic data API
- Creating a PRTG dashboard
- Making the dashboard dynamic – using variables
- Multiple sources – Visualizing MS SQL Server data and its sensors
- Embedding the dashboard
