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Easy Learning with Grafana Masterclass: Observability, Monitoring, Alerts
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Master Grafana: Observability, Monitoring & Alerting for DevOps & SREs

What you will learn:

  • Grafana Fundamentals
  • Data Source Management
  • Dashboard Design & Development
  • Advanced Querying Techniques
  • Grafana Security & Scalability
  • Real-World Grafana Applications
  • Alerting & Notification Systems
  • Data Visualization Best Practices
  • Log Management with Grafana
  • Metric Collection & Analysis

Description

Unlock the power of Grafana and transform your monitoring and alerting capabilities!

This comprehensive course empowers DevOps engineers, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and cloud architects to master Grafana, the leading open-source platform for visualizing, monitoring, and analyzing metrics from diverse data sources. Learn by doing through practical, real-world examples and hands-on exercises.

Why Choose This Course?

This isn't just theory; it's a practical, project-based learning experience. You'll follow along step-by-step, building a fully functional Grafana server in the cloud, complete with SSL, a custom domain, and multiple integrated data sources. You'll gain proficiency in querying, data visualization, and creating automated alerts—essential skills for efficient incident management and proactive system maintenance.

What You'll Master:

This course covers everything from Grafana installation and configuration to advanced techniques like creating dynamic dashboards, configuring alerts, and integrating with various data sources, including MySQL, Prometheus, Loki, InfluxDB, and more. You'll learn to leverage powerful features like LogQL, Value Maps, panel linking, and annotation queries to glean actionable insights from your data.

Key Skills Covered:

  • Grafana setup and security best practices (SSL, domain configuration).
  • Integration with diverse data sources: MySQL, Zabbix, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch.
  • Building interactive dashboards utilizing various panel types (graphs, tables, heatmaps, logs).
  • Mastering data transformations and query languages for effective data analysis.
  • Implementing robust alerting and notification systems (email, Slack, webhooks).
  • Real-world use cases: Kubernetes monitoring, system performance tracking, log management, and SNMP device monitoring.

Project Highlights:

  • Deploy a secure, cloud-hosted Grafana server.
  • Build custom dashboards for monitoring key metrics.
  • Configure and manage multiple data sources and collection agents.
  • Design and implement automated alerts for critical events.

Elevate your observability game and become a Grafana expert. Enroll today and start your journey to mastering modern monitoring!

Curriculum

Introduction to Grafana

This section provides a foundational understanding of Grafana. Lectures cover introductory concepts, the key features and benefits of Grafana, comparisons with alternative solutions, and detailed guidance on installing and setting up Grafana across different environments. A community chat session allows interaction with fellow students and tech experts. The section concludes with a hands-on setup walkthrough.

Grafana Configuration & Administration

Learn the basics of Grafana configuration, focusing on the dashboard construction process, components, and the creation of dashboards using test data. This section emphasizes practical application and building a functional understanding of the Grafana interface.

Start Playing with Realtime Dashboards

This section dives into creating real-time dashboards. You'll learn how to install plugins, create data sources for CSV data, and build dashboards to visualize that data. The focus is on practical application and building interactive dashboards from raw data.

Transformations in Grafana

This section covers data transformations within Grafana. You'll learn how to apply transformations to your data, creating visualizations of real-time server states. The emphasis is on manipulating and refining data to improve the clarity and utility of dashboards.

Visualizing Time Series Data in Grafana

This section focuses on the visualization of time-series data within Grafana. You'll learn how to create and effectively use dashboards for time-series data, allowing for better understanding of data trends over time.

Database Monitoring with Grafana: MySQL

This section details setting up and monitoring MySQL databases using Grafana. You'll learn how to set up MySQL for Grafana monitoring, configure the Grafana data source, and build detailed dashboards visualizing various aspects of your database's performance. This includes creating dashboards to represent different aspects of database activity, along with techniques for testing observability of data.

Log Monitoring Grafana: Loki & Promtail

This section covers setting up log monitoring with Grafana, Loki, and Promtail. Lectures cover the purpose and use of these tools, installation and configuration, LogQL basics and advanced log filtering, and finally, building a Grafana dashboard to visualize MySQL logs.