Grafana tutorials

You'll find 3 types of learning content here:

Get started with Grafana Alerting
Procedural

Get started with Grafana Alerting

Get Started with Grafana Alerting In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of setting up your first alert in just a few minutes....

Grafana | Beginner

Getting started with the Grafana LGTM Stack
Video

Getting started with the Grafana LGTM Stack

During this webinar, you’ll learn how to: Connect disparate data from multiple tools to Grafana for a unified ‘first-pane-of-glass’...

Grafana | Beginner

Grafana fundamentals
Procedural

Grafana fundamentals

Get familiar with Grafana

Grafana | Beginner

Play with Mimir
Procedural

Play with Mimir

Play with Mimir Grafana Mimir is a distributed, horizontally scalable, and highly available long term storage for Prometheus. In this tutorial,...

Grafana Mimir | Beginner

Run Grafana behind a reverse proxy
Procedural

Run Grafana behind a reverse proxy

Learn how to run Grafana behind a reverse proxy

Grafana | Beginner

Provision dashboards and data sources
Procedural

Provision dashboards and data sources

Treat your configuration as code.

Grafana | Beginner

How to create alerts with log data
Procedural

How to create alerts with log data

Create alerts with Logs

Grafana | Advanced

Install Grafana on Raspberry Pi
Procedural

Install Grafana on Raspberry Pi

Get Grafana set up on your Raspberry Pi.

Grafana | Beginner

Monitor an app with Kubernetes Monitoring
Procedural

Monitor an app with Kubernetes Monitoring

Monitor an app with Kubernetes Monitoring This tutorial shows how to deploy an instrumented three-tier (data layer, app logic layer,...

Grafana | Beginner

Integrate Hubot with Grafana
Procedural

Integrate Hubot with Grafana

Learn how to integrate Hubot with Grafana

Grafana | Beginner

Getting started with Grafana dashboard design (EMEA Timezone)
Video

Getting started with Grafana dashboard design (EMEA Timezone)

Join us to learn more about: Why considering the context leads to better-designed Grafana dashboards How you can create a consistent dashboard...

Grafana | Beginner

How to create Grafana alerts with InfluxDB and the Flux query language
Procedural

How to create Grafana alerts with InfluxDB and the Flux query language

Create complex alerts from Flux queries in the new Grafana Alerting

Grafana | Advanced

Create users and teams
Procedural

Create users and teams

Learn how to set up teams and users.

Grafana | Beginner

Stream metrics from Telegraf to Grafana
Procedural

Stream metrics from Telegraf to Grafana

Use Telegraf to stream live metrics to Grafana.

Grafana | Beginner

Use IIS with URL Rewrite as a reverse proxy
Procedural

Use IIS with URL Rewrite as a reverse proxy

Learn how to set up Grafana behind IIS with URL Rewrite.

Grafana | Beginner

Correlate your metrics, logs, and traces with the Grafana LGTM Stack
Video

Correlate your metrics, logs, and traces with the Grafana LGTM Stack

At Grafana Labs, we believe that users should have the freedom to use the tools they know and love. In this webinar, we’ll talk about taking...

Grafana | Beginner

Video: The new simple, scalable deployment for Grafana Loki and Grafana Enterprise Logs
Blog post

Video: The new simple, scalable deployment for Grafana Loki and Grafana Enterprise Logs

A step-by-step tutorial on how to use the new simple, scalable deployment in Loki and Grafana Enterprise Logs.

Grafana Loki | Beginner

Intro to distributed tracing with Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana Cloud
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Intro to distributed tracing with Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana Cloud

Learn how tracing, one of the pillars of observability, helps us deduce what’s happening in an application — and get a step-by-step demo of how...

Grafana Tempo | Beginner

How to use PromQL joins for more effective queries of Prometheus metrics at scale
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How to use PromQL joins for more effective queries of Prometheus metrics at scale

We helped a power user remove the need for 18,000 individual rules using PromQL joins. Here’s how.

Prometheus | Intermediate

How to use Grafana and Prometheus to Rickroll your friends (or enemies)
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How to use Grafana and Prometheus to Rickroll your friends (or enemies)

A complete guide to building an observability meme that's never gonna let you down.

Prometheus | Intermediate

Grafana plugins demo: GitHub, GitLab, JIRA, ServiceNow, and more
Video

Grafana plugins demo: GitHub, GitLab, JIRA, ServiceNow, and more

Would you like to have insight into how your development team is functioning without having to micromanage operations? Do you ever wonder what...

Grafana | Beginner

Intro to unified alerting in Grafana
Video

Intro to unified alerting in Grafana

In this webinar, we’ll give you a walkthrough and introduction of the Grafana 8 unified alerting system that was announced at GrafanaCONline....

Prometheus | Beginner

IoT at your home, work, or data center with Prometheus metrics and Grafana Cloud
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IoT at your home, work, or data center with Prometheus metrics and Grafana Cloud

Learn how to monitor your environment with IoT sensors and quickly get insights from Grafana dashboards.

Grafana | Intermediate

How to visualize your business performance with cohort tables using Grafana and BigQuery
Blog post

How to visualize your business performance with cohort tables using Grafana and BigQuery

A step-by-step guide to using Grafana and BigQuery to create cohort tables that can improve your business.

Grafana | Intermediate

Best practices for consistent configuration management at scale with Tanka
Blog post

Best practices for consistent configuration management at scale with Tanka

With Tanka inline environments, we solved the problems of configuration drift and bootstrapping new Tanka environments and new clusters.

Tanka | Intermediate

How to quickly find unused metrics and get more value from Grafana Cloud
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How to quickly find unused metrics and get more value from Grafana Cloud

We’ve recently released a new set of commands that makes it easy to identify and remove unused metrics to help manage costs.

Grafana | Intermediate

Get more and spend less with Grafana Loki for logs
Video

Get more and spend less with Grafana Loki for logs

Two and a half years since it was launched, Grafana Loki is making it easy to aggregate logs cost-efficiently at cloud native scale. The Loki...

Grafana Loki | Beginner

What’s next for alerting in Grafana
Video

What’s next for alerting in Grafana

Prometheus offers some of the most powerful alerting capabilities available. A single, consistent alerting rule can generate multiple...

Grafana | Beginner

Easy DIY IoT projects with Grafana
Video

Easy DIY IoT projects with Grafana

From a quick glance, it might seem that IoT is hard. After all, if it wasn’t, everyone would be doing it, right? Join Grafanistas and homelab...

Grafana | Beginner

IoT in Grafana: Real-time streaming, new visualizations, and more, oh my!
Video

IoT in Grafana: Real-time streaming, new visualizations, and more, oh my!

We’re kicking off IoT day at GrafanaCONline with a showcase of the exciting changes we’ve been making in Grafana to support industrial/IoT use...

Grafana | Beginner

Lightning talks: 5 quick ways to uplevel your use of Grafana
Video

Lightning talks: 5 quick ways to uplevel your use of Grafana

In this advanced session, we’ve gathered some Grafanistas to share their expertise to help you uplevel your use of Grafana. CTO and Co-founder...

Grafana | Beginner

Open source distributed tracing with Grafana Tempo
Video

Open source distributed tracing with Grafana Tempo

Grafana Tempo, our open source, easy-to-use, high scale distributed tracing backend, was announced at ObservabilityCON last October. In this...

Grafana Tempo | Beginner

The pace of Prometheus and Cortex innovation
Video

The pace of Prometheus and Cortex innovation

In this session, we’ll cover recent development in Prometheus and Cortex, including features such as histograms, remote_write, and exemplars....

Prometheus | Beginner

Plugin showcase: Building a single pane of observability glass
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Plugin showcase: Building a single pane of observability glass

Plugins allow users to extend and customize their Grafana experience with their choice of data sources, dashboards, and apps. But what makes a...

Grafana | Beginner

Grafana 8.0 deep dive
Video

Grafana 8.0 deep dive

Grafana 8.0 is here! The Grafana team will demo all the highlights of the latest major release: new and updated visualizations and themes, data...

Grafana | Beginner

A year in space: Using Grafana to analyze ultraviolet sensors on the International Space Station
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A year in space: Using Grafana to analyze ultraviolet sensors on the International Space Station

Three Ozark IC ultraviolet (UV) detector modules were installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in January 2019 on Alpha Space Test...

Grafana | Beginner

The future of machine learning at Grafana Labs
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The future of machine learning at Grafana Labs

Machine learning has the potential to give engineers new ways to understand data. Unlike people, machines can consistently monitor and analyze...

Grafana | Beginner

How to alert on high cardinality data with Grafana Loki
Blog post

How to alert on high cardinality data with Grafana Loki

In this guest blog, Amnon Heiman writes about how Loki 2.0 can help any system built on Prometheus overcome the cardinality problem.

Grafana Loki | Intermediate

Turn your home office into a NOC room with Philips Hue and Grafana
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Turn your home office into a NOC room with Philips Hue and Grafana

Using a webhook, you can set your Hue Bridge to turn on bright red lights when it receives an alert notification.

Grafana | Intermediate

How to correlate Graphite metrics and Loki logs
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How to correlate Graphite metrics and Loki logs

Graphite syntax for queries is different compared to Loki — but not impossible to transform thanks to label mapping.

Graphite | Intermediate

How to search logs in Loki without worrying about the case
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How to search logs in Loki without worrying about the case

To capitalize or not to capitalize? Not to worry. Here's an easy solution to run a case-insensitive search in Loki.

Grafana Loki | Intermediate

Get started with distributed tracing and Grafana Tempo using foobar, a demo written in Python
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Get started with distributed tracing and Grafana Tempo using foobar, a demo written in Python

Foobar is a small microservices application that contains all the things that you need to get started with distributed tracing.

Grafana Tempo | Intermediate

Learn how to monitor your energy use at home with a Raspberry Pi, Grafana and Prometheus
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Learn how to monitor your energy use at home with a Raspberry Pi, Grafana and Prometheus

If you checked out our webinar on Grafana Cloud and Raspberry Pis and want another project idea, this simple step-by-step guide will help you...

Grafana | Intermediate

How to send traces to Grafana Cloud's Tempo service with OpenTelemetry Collector
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How to send traces to Grafana Cloud's Tempo service with OpenTelemetry Collector

Follow this guide to learn how to upload traces to Grafana Cloud using the open source OpenTelemetry Collector.

Grafana Tempo | Intermediate

How to troubleshoot remote write issues in Prometheus
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How to troubleshoot remote write issues in Prometheus

A breakdown of all the metrics and configurations that can help you diagnose a remote write issue in Prometheus.

Prometheus | Intermediate

Using Telegraf plugins to visualize industrial IoT data with the Grafana Cloud Hosted Prometheus service
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Using Telegraf plugins to visualize industrial IoT data with the Grafana Cloud Hosted Prometheus...

This simple demo shows how easy it has become to get data out of complicated and highly specialized systems and into Prometheus and Grafana,...

Prometheus | Intermediate

How I built a monitoring system for my avocado plant with Arduino and Grafana Cloud
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How I built a monitoring system for my avocado plant with Arduino and Grafana Cloud

This how-to shows that it doesn’t have to be difficult or complicated to create a monitoring system for basically any IoT project.

Grafana | Intermediate

How to set up a Grafana development environment on a Windows PC using WSL
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How to set up a Grafana development environment on a Windows PC using WSL

A step-by-step guide to running Grafana on a Windows PC using the Linux runtime environment.

Grafana | Intermediate

The essential config settings you should use so you won’t drop logs in Loki
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The essential config settings you should use so you won’t drop logs in Loki

Follow the tips in this guide to secure the reliability of Loki’s write path and ensure that no logs are left behind.

Grafana Loki | Intermediate

Instrumenting a .NET web API using OpenTelemetry, Tempo, and Grafana Cloud
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Instrumenting a .NET web API using OpenTelemetry, Tempo, and Grafana Cloud

Follow this step-by-step guide to using the OpenTelemetry .NET library to offload traces to Tempo and logs to Loki — and connect them in Grafana...

Grafana Tempo | Intermediate

How I monitor my OpenWrt router with Grafana Cloud and Prometheus
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How I monitor my OpenWrt router with Grafana Cloud and Prometheus

Learn how to set up monitoring for an internet router running the open source Linux operating system OpenWrt.

Prometheus | Intermediate

Auto-instrumenting a Java Spring Boot application for traces and logs using OpenTelemetry and Grafana Tempo
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Auto-instrumenting a Java Spring Boot application for traces and logs using OpenTelemetry and...

There is an enormous amount of interest from the community in Java auto-instrumentation, so Tempo creator Joe Elliott set out to determine what...

Grafana Tempo | Intermediate

How to connect and monitor your Raspberry Pi with Grafana Cloud
Blog post

How to connect and monitor your Raspberry Pi with Grafana Cloud

Here’s a step-by-step guide to setting up monitoring for your Raspberry Pi project on Grafana Cloud.

Grafana | Intermediate

6 tips for improving your Grafana plugin before you publish
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6 tips for improving your Grafana plugin before you publish

Add some extra polish to your plugin before you submit it to the Grafana plugin page.

Grafana | Intermediate

How to get started quickly with metrics, logs, and traces using Grafana Cloud integrations
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How to get started quickly with metrics, logs, and traces using Grafana Cloud integrations

By using Grafana Cloud integrations, you'll have an observability stack for your infrastructure — including preconfigured dashboards and alerts...

Grafana | Intermediate

How to use LogQL range aggregations in Loki
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How to use LogQL range aggregations in Loki

Learn how range vector operations, combined with LogQL parsers and unwrapped expressions, can provide a new set of metrics in Loki.

Grafana Loki | Intermediate

Get started with Prometheus with these three easy projects
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Get started with Prometheus with these three easy projects

Learn Prometheus with simple projects that can be monitored with Prometheus and visualized in Grafana.

Prometheus | Beginner

Video tutorial: Effective troubleshooting queries with Grafana Loki
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Video tutorial: Effective troubleshooting queries with Grafana Loki

Watch this 3-minute video to learn how to use Loki’s log filtering capabilities for forensic troubleshooting.

Grafana Loki | Intermediate

How to escape special characters with Loki's LogQL
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How to escape special characters with Loki's LogQL

By using raw strings, escaping special characters in Loki can be much easier

Grafana Loki | Intermediate

Observability with Grafana on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
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Observability with Grafana on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Grafana has become the world’s most popular technology used to compose observability dashboards with everything from Prometheus & Graphite...

Grafana | Beginner

How to create fast queries with Loki’s LogQL to filter terabytes of logs in seconds
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How to create fast queries with Loki’s LogQL to filter terabytes of logs in seconds

In the first of a series of how-to posts, Loki maintainer Cyril Tovena shares tips for filtering logs effectively with LogQL.

Grafana Loki | Intermediate

How to find traces in Tempo with Elasticsearch and Grafana
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How to find traces in Tempo with Elasticsearch and Grafana

Here's how to use Elasticsearch for trace discovery in Tempo, a fantastic new tool for mass trace ingestion.

Grafana Tempo | Intermediate

How we eliminated service outages from ‘certificate expired’ by setting up alerts with Grafana and Prometheus
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How we eliminated service outages from ‘certificate expired’ by setting up alerts with Grafana and...

In this guest blog, get the step-by-step instructions to set up monitoring for the expiration date of certificates.

Grafana | Intermediate

Tracing with the Grafana Cloud Agent and Grafana Tempo
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Tracing with the Grafana Cloud Agent and Grafana Tempo

Here's your starter guide to configuring the Grafana Agent to collect traces and ship them to Tempo, our new distributed tracing system.

Grafana Tempo | Intermediate

Trace discovery in Grafana Tempo using Prometheus exemplars, Loki 2.0 queries, and more
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Trace discovery in Grafana Tempo using Prometheus exemplars, Loki 2.0 queries, and more

In this blog, we’ll explain how to use other data sources for trace discovery in Grafana Tempo, our new distributed tracing backend.

Grafana Tempo | Intermediate

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

Check out the latest in Developer Advocate Marcus Olsson's series of quick tips on how to get the most out of Grafana.

Grafana | Intermediate

Introducing Synthetic Monitoring
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Introducing Synthetic Monitoring

Compared to worldPing, Synthetic Monitoring is more intuitive, easier to use, and allows users to observe how systems and applications are...

Grafana | Beginner

How I'm using Grafana and Prometheus to monitor my 3D printing
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How I'm using Grafana and Prometheus to monitor my 3D printing

In this guest blog post, Jonathan Stines shares his journey down the rabbit hole of monitoring dashboards for his 3D printer.

Grafana | Intermediate

3 tips to improve your Grafana dashboard design
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3 tips to improve your Grafana dashboard design

UX designer Jessica Müller offers some easy fixes for better dashboard design.

Grafana | Beginner

Loki tutorial: How to send logs from Amazon's ECS to Loki
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Loki tutorial: How to send logs from Amazon's ECS to Loki

A complete guide to forwarding logs and workload metadata from Amazon's Elastic Container Service to Loki. The result? All your logs can be...

Grafana Loki | Intermediate

How to stream Graphite metrics to Grafana Cloud using carbon-relay-ng
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How to stream Graphite metrics to Grafana Cloud using carbon-relay-ng

In this post, we'll show how to ship Graphite metrics into Grafana's managed metric offering, Grafana Cloud.

Graphite | Intermediate

Loki tutorial: How to send logs from EKS with Promtail to get full visibility in Grafana
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Loki tutorial: How to send logs from EKS with Promtail to get full visibility in Grafana

If you're using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, this setup will allow you to query all your logs in one place.

Grafana Loki | Intermediate

Loki tutorial: How to set up Promtail on AWS EC2 to find and analyze your logs
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Loki tutorial: How to set up Promtail on AWS EC2 to find and analyze your logs

Amazon's EC2 is one of the most popular ways to run applications in the cloud. Here's how to set up Promtail to send logs to Loki and gain...

Grafana Loki | Intermediate

Where did all my spans go? A guide to diagnosing dropped spans in Jaeger distributed tracing
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Where did all my spans go? A guide to diagnosing dropped spans in Jaeger distributed tracing

For a new Jaeger operator a very common challenge is determining where spans are being dropped in the ingestion pipeline. This post covers the...

Grafana | Intermediate

Monitoring Java applications with the Prometheus JMX exporter and Grafana
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Monitoring Java applications with the Prometheus JMX exporter and Grafana

Grafana Labs solutions engineer Ronald McCollam explains how to convert metrics from a Java application into a format that Prometheus can...

Grafana | Intermediate

Learn Grafana: How to build a scatter plot plugin in Grafana 7.0
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Learn Grafana: How to build a scatter plot plugin in Grafana 7.0

Grafana 7.0's Plugins Platform makes building high-quality plugins easier and faster than ever. In this tutorial, Grafana Labs developer...

Grafana | Intermediate

How to visualize Prometheus histograms in Grafana
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How to visualize Prometheus histograms in Grafana

Learn how to turn a Prometheus histogram into a stat panel, bar gauge, or heat map in Grafana

Prometheus | Intermediate

How to monitor a sourdough starter with Grafana
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How to monitor a sourdough starter with Grafana

Jumping on the bread making trend? Grafana Labs junior developer Ivana Huckova shares how she built a sourdough starter monitoring system that...

Grafana | Intermediate

Learn Grafana: How to automatically repeat rows and panels in dynamic dashboards
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Learn Grafana: How to automatically repeat rows and panels in dynamic dashboards

In this tutorial, you'll learn about the Grafana feature that allows you to dynamically add and remove entire panels.

Grafana | Intermediate

Loki quick tip: How to use a Loki datasource in your Grafana dashboard
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Loki quick tip: How to use a Loki datasource in your Grafana dashboard

Now it's easier than ever to create an application dashboard made only with logs.

Grafana Loki | Intermediate

Loki quick tip: How to create a Grafana dashboard for searching logs using Loki and Prometheus
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Loki quick tip: How to create a Grafana dashboard for searching logs using Loki and Prometheus

A customer asked for a dashboard with a simple search for labels already pre-set to help teams quickly find what they are looking for while...

Grafana Loki | Intermediate

Introducing Grafana Cloud Agent, a remote_write-focused Prometheus agent that can save 40% on memory usage
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Introducing Grafana Cloud Agent, a remote_write-focused Prometheus agent that can save 40% on memory...

We've created a remote_write-focused version of a Prometheus agent. Here's why you should use it if you’re running Prometheus at scale.

Prometheus | Intermediate

Learn Grafana: How to use dual axis graphs
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Learn Grafana: How to use dual axis graphs

Why on earth would you need another Y axis? In this post you'll learn about dual axis graphs in Grafana and when you should use them.

Grafana | Intermediate

Pro tip: How to monitor client certificate expirations with Prometheus
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Pro tip: How to monitor client certificate expirations with Prometheus

Learn how to easily track certificate expirations using Prometheus and Grafana.

Prometheus | Intermediate

How to configure Grafana as code
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How to configure Grafana as code

At FOSDEM 2020, Malcolm Holmes and Julien Pivotto discussed creating fully reproducible Grafana dashboards using Grafonnet -— and why it leads...

Grafana | Intermediate

Step-by-step guide to setting up Prometheus Alertmanager with Slack, PagerDuty, and Gmail
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Step-by-step guide to setting up Prometheus Alertmanager with Slack, PagerDuty, and Gmail

Here’s how to get started with Prometheus Alertmanager and set up alert notifications with some popular methods and apps.

Prometheus | Intermediate

Connecting Prometheus-Ksonnet to Grafana Cloud
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Connecting Prometheus-Ksonnet to Grafana Cloud

You've installed monitoring to your Kubernetes cluster using the Prometheus-Ksonnet library. Now learn how to connect your cluster to Grafana...

Prometheus | Intermediate

Monitoring Setup Made Simple with Tanka and the Prometheus-Ksonnet Library
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Monitoring Setup Made Simple with Tanka and the Prometheus-Ksonnet Library

Check out this how-to for setting up monitoring in your Kubernetes cluster with Tanka and the Prometheus-Ksonnet library.

Tanka | Intermediate

Introduction to PromQL, the Prometheus query language
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Introduction to PromQL, the Prometheus query language

Interested in learning about PromQL? Here’s an introductory tutorial.

Prometheus | Intermediate

How to migrate your configuration database
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How to migrate your configuration database

Grafana uses sqlite3 as the default configuration database. Here’s a look at how to migrate your configuration to a different database if you...

Grafana | Intermediate

Pro Tips: Dashboard Navigation Using Links
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Pro Tips: Dashboard Navigation Using Links

Did you know you can use links to navigate between commonly used dashboards? Here’s how.

Grafana | Intermediate

How to Do Automatic Annotations with Grafana and Loki
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How to Do Automatic Annotations with Grafana and Loki

Stitch together automatic annotations with the help of Grafana, Loki, and kubernetes-diff-logger.

Grafana Loki | Intermediate

How to Explore Prometheus with Easy 'Hello World' Projects
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How to Explore Prometheus with Easy 'Hello World' Projects

Here are some easy and fast projects to help you explore Prometheus.

Prometheus | Intermediate

[KubeCon Recap] How to Include Latency in SLO-Based Alerting
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[KubeCon Recap] How to Include Latency in SLO-Based Alerting

In his KubeCon talk, Björn “Beorn” Rabenstein demonstrated how to set latency-based SLOs so that they can be used for error budgets and the...

Prometheus | Intermediate

[KubeCon Recap] How to Debug Live Applications in Kubernetes
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[KubeCon Recap] How to Debug Live Applications in Kubernetes

At KubeCon in San Diego, Grafana Labs backend engineer Joe Elliott revealed his tricks to debugging applications from a Kubernetes sidecar.

Grafana | Intermediate

How to Stream Sensor Data with Grafana and InfluxDB
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How to Stream Sensor Data with Grafana and InfluxDB

At InfluxDays San Francisco, Ryan McKinley demonstrated how to stream sensor data using Grafana and InfluxDB.

Grafana | Intermediate

How to Set Up This Next-Level Personal Home Dashboard in Your Kitchen
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How to Set Up This Next-Level Personal Home Dashboard in Your Kitchen

This personal home dashboard looks cool -- but it also allows you to make informed decisions throughout the day, says guest blogger Cameron...

Grafana | Intermediate

How to Do Effective Infrastructure Monitoring for Linux with Grafana
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How to Do Effective Infrastructure Monitoring for Linux with Grafana

A look at how Grafana Labs uses Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Jaeger, and monitoring mixins for infrastructure monitoring.

Grafana | Intermediate

How to Fix a Broken Grafana Dashboard with the API
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How to Fix a Broken Grafana Dashboard with the API

A rare problem with a self-referencing variable caused a customer's dashboard to break. Here's how to salvage the situation.

Grafana | Intermediate

How to Get Blazin' Fast PromQL
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How to Get Blazin' Fast PromQL

VP of Product Tom Wilkie demos how to accelerate Prometheus queries from four seconds to less than 100 milliseconds.

Prometheus | Intermediate

Homelab Security with OSSEC, Loki, Prometheus, and Grafana on a Raspberry Pi
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Homelab Security with OSSEC, Loki, Prometheus, and Grafana on a Raspberry Pi

A guide to using Loki with Prometheus and Grafana to visualize the OSSEC security application, all running on a Raspberry Pi

Grafana Loki | Intermediate

Ask Us Anything: How to Alias Dashboard Variables in Grafana in SQL
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Ask Us Anything: How to Alias Dashboard Variables in Grafana in SQL

A customer asked how to translate an esoteric ID or serial number into an user-friendly name in Grafana. Here’s our answer.

Grafana | Intermediate

Pro Tips: How to Decrease MTTR and Increase Uptime with Grafana and VictorOps
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Pro Tips: How to Decrease MTTR and Increase Uptime with Grafana and VictorOps

VictorOps' Melanie Postma on how teams can leverage VictorOps and Grafana dashboards to reduce MTTR.

Grafana | Intermediate

How to Mix Metrics and Logs with Grafana and Influx
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How to Mix Metrics and Logs with Grafana and Influx

At InfluxDays, Grafana Labs' David Kaltschmidt showed how Grafana's Explore feature allows users to visualize metrics and logs using Influx....

Grafana | Intermediate

Grafana tutorial: simple synthetic monitoring for applications
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Grafana tutorial: simple synthetic monitoring for applications

Monitoring synthetic metrics can optimize the user experience on your application. Here's how Grafana makes that easier

Grafana | Intermediate

How Not to Fail at Visualization
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How Not to Fail at Visualization

Here are six lessons from Icinga CPO Blerim Sheqa for successful visualization.

Grafana | Intermediate

How PostgreSQL and Grafana Can Improve Monitoring Together
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How PostgreSQL and Grafana Can Improve Monitoring Together

TimescaleDB's Diana Hsieh makes a convincing case for using SQL in time series monitoring.

Grafana | Intermediate

How to Streamline Infrastructure Monitoring with Sensu, InfluxDB, and Grafana
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How to Streamline Infrastructure Monitoring with Sensu, InfluxDB, and Grafana

Your monitoring stack should not cost you stacks. At GrafanaCon, Sensu Software Engineer Nikki Attea demonstrated one effective way to collect...

Grafana | Intermediate

Ask us anything: Should I run Prometheus in a container?
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Ask us anything: Should I run Prometheus in a container?

A customer asked for advice about whether to use a containerized Prometheus environment or a VM-based one. We thought we’d share our answer here...

Prometheus | Intermediate

Grafana Tutorial: How to Create Kiosks to Display Dashboards on a TV
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Grafana Tutorial: How to Create Kiosks to Display Dashboards on a TV

A very useful feature of Grafana is the ability to display dashboards and playlists on a large TV.

Grafana | Intermediate

How to Visualize Data that Really Matters to Business with Grafana and MySQL
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How to Visualize Data that Really Matters to Business with Grafana and MySQL

When an executive sees a Grafana dashboard and asks, 'What does this really mean for business?' Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev shows you how to...

Grafana | Intermediate

Grafana Plugin Tutorial: Polystat Panel (Part 2)
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Grafana Plugin Tutorial: Polystat Panel (Part 2)

In this installment of the grafana-polystat-panel plugin tutorial, we look at rolling up multiple Cassandra clusters and tying together multiple...

Grafana | Intermediate

Grafana Plugin Tutorial: Polystat Panel (Part 1)
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Grafana Plugin Tutorial: Polystat Panel (Part 1)

Polystat The grafana-polystat-panel plugin was created to provide a way to roll up multiple metrics and implement flexible drilldowns to other...

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Writing React Plugins
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Writing React Plugins

In this blog post we will go through how you can create plugins for Grafana using ReactJS.

Grafana | Intermediate

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