Grafana
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. It enables the user to query, visualize, alert, and analyze metrics stored anywhere. Grafana provides a unified platform for metrics, logs, traces, and other data, which makes it a valuable tool for monitoring and troubleshooting applications and infrastructure.
This key competency area includes an understanding of the concepts of queries and metrics, alerting and notifications, templating, user management, and data sources.
Key Competencies:
- Queries and Metrics - Ability to write queries to retrieve specific metrics and data points from your chosen data source.
- Alerting and Notifications - Understand how to set up alerting rules in Grafana based on the data. Configure alert thresholds and notification channels (e.g., email, Slack, PagerDuty) to be notified of critical events.
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Templating - Knowledge of using templating effectively for dynamic dashboards.
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User Management - Ability to manage users, roles, and permissions within Grafana to control access to the dashboards and data.
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Data Sources - Understand how to configure and connect Grafana to different data sources such as Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, or cloud-based services.