Visualize, analyze, and optimize your data with Grafana Key Features? Explore AIOps monitoring with Grafana for optimized operations and proactive decision making.? Discover how to conduct performance testing using Grafana.? Master the art of designing Grafana dashboards and visualizations.DescriptionGrafana, a popular open-source observability platform, provides robust tools for analyzing and visualizing data from diverse sources. If you are looking to unlock its full potential as a data visualization and monitoring platform, then this book is for you.This book offers a comprehensive insight into the capabilities of Grafana and empowers you to leverage this powerful tool to its fullest extent. It provides you with the knowledge and skills necessary to create impressive visualizations, establish dashboards, and optimize monitoring processes. The book will help you delve into various aspects of Grafana, including its interface, utilizing the Graph Panel for visualizing data, connecting it to data sources, organizing dashboards, harnessing advanced features, and exploring additional functionalities like Grafana Loki for log exploration and managing authorization and authentication. Furthermore, the book explores specific use cases such as blackbox exporter, synthetic monitoring, Kubernetes monitoring, AIOps monitoring, and maximizing Grafana plugins. It concludes by presenting best practices for working with Grafana and offering insights into setting up performance testing and engineering dashboards.By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to unlock its full potential as a data visualization and monitoring platform. What you will learn? Learn how to create visually appealing dashboards and panels using Grafana.? Gain the ability to track and optimize application performance, ensuring an enhanced user experience.? Utilize Grafana to record and analyze system applications.? Track and analyze unique metrics for customized performance monitoring insights.? Set up Grafana alerts and email notifications to receive timely notifications about critical events and anomalies.Who this book is forThis book is suitable for professionals in DevSecOps, Performance Testing, Site Reliability, AIOps, MLOps, Platform, Development, and Test Engineering teams.Table of Contents1. Introduction to Data Visualization with Grafana 2. A Tour of the Grafana Interface3. An Introduction to the Graph Panel4. Connecting Grafana to a Data Source5. Visualizing Data in the Graph Panel6. Creating Your First Dashboard7. Visualization Panels in Grafana8. Organizing Dashboards9. Grafana Alerting10. Working with Advanced Dashboard Features11. Exploring Logs with Grafana Loki12. Managing Authorization and Authentication13. Blackbox Exporter14. Synthetic Monitoring15. Maximizing the Grafana Plug-in16. Kubernetes Monitoring17. Grafana Cloud18. AIOps Monitoring19. Dashboard Setup for Performance Testing and Engineering20. Best Practices of Working with Grafana