Hey Learners! Welcome back. We are doing a great job so far. We understood a lot of concepts regarding the deployment and management of infrastructure. What next? We have to monitor our application and the resources used. We will not be there 24*7 to monitor our application or resources, so we'll use the Grafana monitor tool to monitor our resources and application. Let's monitor...
What is Grafana?
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability, used for Data visualisation and analysis from various sources in real-time. It allows us to query, visualize, alert, and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored.
Features:-
Some of the key features of Grafana include-
Flexible Dashboard Creation
Alerting
Templating and Plugins
Data Source Agnostic
User Access Control
Why Grafana?
Grafana is a popular choice for data visualization and monitoring due to its powerful and flexible dashboard editor, support for multiple data sources, variety of visualization options, alerting capabilities, user management features, and active community support. It allows users to quickly and easily create dynamic, responsive, and visually appealing dashboards that can help them gain insights into the performance and health of their systems. Additionally, Grafana can be integrated with a wide range of data sources, including databases, time series databases, and log data, making it a versatile tool for monitoring and visualization of various systems.
What type of monitoring can be done via Grafana?
Grafana supports Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Monitoring, Log Monitoring, IoT Device Monitoring, Business Metrics Monitoring, etc.
What is the difference between Grafana and Prometheus?
Grafana and Prometheus are both popular open-source tools used for monitoring and visualization, but they serve different purposes in the monitoring stack.
Prometheus is primarily a data collection and storage tool, whereas Grafana is a visualization and alerting tool.
Prometheus has a powerful query language PromQL that allows users to query and analyze the collected data in real-time. Grafana relies on data sources to provide the data and analysis capabilities.
Prometheus has limited visualization options and focuses more on data collection and analysis. Whereas Grafana is primarily used for data visualization.
Prometheus supports alerting, but its alerting capabilities are more limited compared to Grafana.
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