Grafana and Graphite Training Course
Grafana is an open-source visualization and metric analytics suite designed for visualizing real-time application data. Graphite is an open-source tool used for monitoring and graphing computer system metrics. By leveraging both Grafana and Graphite, users can efficiently diagnose system issues and monitor overall system performance.
This instructor-led live training (available online or onsite) is designed for web developers and DevOps engineers who want to visualize and monitor data using Grafana and Graphite.
Upon completing this training, participants will be able to:
- Aggregate and visualize metrics related to systems and applications.
- Develop a StatsD client to collect application metrics.
- Construct informative and dynamic dashboards using Grafana.
- Extract insights from backend performance data.
Course Format
- Interactive lectures and discussions.
- Numerous exercises and practice sessions.
- Hands-on implementation within a live lab environment.
Customization Options
- To request a customized training version of this course, please contact us to make arrangements.
Course Outline
Introduction
Visualizing Application Performance
- What is Grafana?
- What are Graphite and StatsD?
Preparing the Development Environment
- Installing and configuring Grafana
- Installing and configuring Graphite
- Installing and configuring StatsD
Metrics Aggregation and Gathering
- Adding StatsD to an application
- Gathering metrics
- Setting up and configuring Graphite-web and Carbon
- Verifying systems
Grafana
- Loading data sources
- Building dashboards and graphs
- Working with panels
- Using plug-ins
- Integrating an SQL server
- Working with organizations
- Creating, managing, authenticating users and groups
Grafana and Graphite
- Rendering endpoints
- Working with Grafana queries
Summary and Conclusion
Requirements
- Basic computer experience
Audience
- Web Developers
- DevOps Engineers
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