Grafana: Not an ABCs of Your Grandfather’s Dashboarding

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This is a high-level overview of Grafana focusing on templating, supported and advanced by one of the most deeply engaged open software community; and an awesome example and illustration of modularity, and extendability with rich and wide domain coverage. In practice, each template can be extended, customized, and integrated with a range of data sources and plugins to suit unique monitoring needs.

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Grafana, the open-source platform for monitoring and observability, offers a rich, widely modular and extensive coverage of features “From heatmaps to histograms, graphs to geomaps” (pls c (b)link ;) above) that make it a favorite among DevOps and IT professionals. At the heart of Grafana’s flexibility and adaptability are its dashboard templates. These templates allow users to quickly spin up visualizations and monitor various metrics without starting from scratch. In this article, we’ll explore several Grafana dashboard templates and their applicabilities.

1. Basic System Monitoring

Template Features:

• CPU Usage: Shows the current usage of your CPU in percentage.
• Memory Usage: Displays RAM consumption.
• Disk I/O: Keeps track of read and writes on the system disk.

Use-case: Ideal for basic monitoring of individual servers or desktop systems.