Grafana
Grafana connects to data sources such as Prometheus and CloudWatch and shows them in dashboards.
Key concepts #
- Data source: where the data lives.
- Dashboard: panels with queries.
- Alerting: notifications on thresholds.
Learn it #
See Istio in a local Kubernetes cluster.
Install it and build a dashboard with Install Grafana with Docker.
Related tutorials
- Docker & Rancher Desktop Tutorials
Install Grafana with Docker and Build Your First Dashboard
Run Grafana in a container with a persistent volume, connect Prometheus as a data source, provision it from files and build your first dashboard step by step.
Observability
Prometheus
Prometheus is an open source monitoring system that scrapes metrics from your services, stores them as time series and fires alerts.
- Docker & Rancher Desktop Tutorials
Install Prometheus with Docker: Scrape Metrics and Write PromQL Queries
Run Prometheus in a container, scrape a Node Exporter and your own targets, learn the basic PromQL queries and create an alert rule you can test locally.