Dashboards

Learn Grafana: Share query results between panels to reduce load time

As you add more panels to your dashboard, more requests are being made, potentially leading to your dashboard taking longer to load. While you can limit the data requested in each query, one of the best ways to reduce the loading time is to reduce the number of requests being made to the data source. Grafana makes a data source query for each panel in your dashboard, even if those queries are identical.

Kibana Dashboard Tutorial: Spice up your Kibana Dashboards

When it comes to dashboarding, Kibana is king. Since its release Kibana has changed the way businesses visualize data. Kibana is a fairly intuitive platform and offers some seriously impressive ways to visualize data. In this kibana dashboard tutorial, we are going to help you unlock the full potential of the platform and help you become a Kibana guru. When it comes to visualizing data Kibana is well suited for monitoring logs, application monitoring, and operational intelligence.

NOC Operator dashboard and the Root Cause perspective How they help you get actionable insights in SCOM

SquaredUp for SCOM sits on top of your existing SCOM and makes managing it a whole lot easier. In SquaredUp, SCOM data is displayed in beautiful and easily readable dashboards, which are also interactive. The coolest part is that the dashboards can be drilled into, down to the unit level, providing you clear actionable insights. As we will show in this blog with just a few clicks, you can identify the exact source of an alert, isolate the problem and take the appropriate action quickly.

New in Grafana Tanka: Customize Helm charts without modifying them

Helm charts are great. They combine high quality, ready-made runtime configurations for a huge number of applications with an incredible getting-started experience. There is literally no faster way to install a production-ready Grafana or Loki on Kubernetes than using helm install. Unfortunately, Helm charts can also be incredibly inflexible.

Kibana Visualization How-to's: Heatmaps

In Kibana you have a full selection of graphical representations for your data, most of the time this can be a simple line or bar charts to do what you need to do. But every so often you need to take a different view to get the most out of your data. Heatmaps are a critical component of the Kibana visualization arsenal, and deserve their own attention.

Intro to synthetic monitoring - and Grafana Labs' new iteration on worldPing

Often there’s a focus on how a service is running from the perspective of the organization. But what does service health monitoring look like from the perspective of a user? Today, understanding your end users’ experience is a key component of ensuring your website or application is functioning correctly. Having a website that is performing well regardless of location, load, or connection type is no longer a nice-to-have, but rather a requirement.

Introducing the AWS X-Ray integration with Grafana

In collaboration with the AWS team, we have just launched another AWS integration, the X-ray data source. Combined with the CloudWatch and Timestream integrations, the AWS X-Ray data source simplifies monitoring and triaging with one Grafana console. The addition of the AWS X-ray data source reflects Grafana’s commitment to becoming a full observability platform that supports distributed tracing as well as metrics and logs.

Mustache pickers How they help you design better dashboards

According to Merriam-Webster, a mustache is 'the hair growing on the human lip' – so let's be clear that when referring to mustache pickers in this blog, we are not suggesting using tweezer-like tools to help you design hipster dashboards. Instead, we are talking about an awesome SquaredUp productivity feature called mustache picker that helps you get quick and effective results when using mustache template syntax within SquaredUp.

Storing, Processing and Visualizing Data with the ogamma Visual Logger for OPC and InfluxDB

This article describes an end-to-end solution built with open source components InfluxDB and Grafana and the ogamma Visual Logger for OPC, to collect industrial process control data, analyze it in streaming mode, and visualize it in a dashboard.