Introduction to grafana

1. Agenda
• Background
• Overview
• Features
• Demo

2. An open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for
Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB
Based on Kibana 3 (it's just HTML, JS and CSS)
Deploy it by unzipping a tarball to a place where your
webserver can serve the contents
config.js to add data sources

3. History
TORKEL ÖDEGAARD
First release jan 2014
Work on it full time since July 2014
@torkelo
https://github.com/grafana

4. Alternative Graphite Dashboards
• Descartes
• Giraffe
• Graphitus
• Graph Explorer
• Tasseo
• GDash
• Graphitti

5. Where does it fit in?

6. Why not Graphite Web?

7. OVERVIEW
• Rich graphing features
• Rich time series query features
• Templated queries
• Annotations
• Dashboard search
• Dashboard playlists
• Export / import
• Scripted dashboards

8. GRAPHING FEATURES
• Multiple y-axis
• Y-axis unit formats (ms, bytes, percent, etc)
• Bars, lines, points (mix in same graph)
• Grid options
• Thresholds
• Tooltip hover display
• Legend values and placement options
• Select region to zoom

9. Rich graphing features
• Multiple y-axis
• Y-axis unit formats (ms, bytes, percent, etc)
• Bars, lines, points (mix in same graph)
• Grid options
• Thresholds
• Tooltip hover display
• Legend values and placement options
• Select region to zoom

10. Query features

11. Templated queries
• Generic & resuable dashboards
TEMPLATE VARIABLES
• Variables can be used in place of in
• Metric expressions
• Function parameters
• Graph & legend titles
• Variables values defined with a metric key query
• Time interval variables (1m, 10m, 1h, 6h, 1d, etc)
• Custom variable values

12. ANNOTATIONS
• Fetch event data and annotate graphs

13. New features 1.9.0
Singlestat panel
Share panel feature
Fill below to
Other graph features & enhancements
Panel links
Coming
Alerting Authentication
Graphing options (histograms etc.)

14. http://grafana.org
Docs
Features
Blog
Live Demo
http://play.grafana.org/#/dashboard/db/grafana-play-home
Talk @ Monitorama conference
http://vimeo.com/95316672