Guide to Grafana 101: Getting Started With (Awesome) Visualizations

Dashboard pro and Timescale Dev Advocate Avthar (@avthars) shows you how to use #Grafana to create dashboards that make it easy for you, teammates, and stakeholders to get the information you need quickly (with an awesome UI/UX to boot).

You'll get a quick Grafana walkthrough, then dive straight into building dashboards for three scenarios: monitoring production apps w/ #Prometheus, tracking IoT device location, and analyzing public datasets - like the spread of COVID-19.

By the end, you'll know how to create 6+ visualizations (from gauges to World Maps) – and use pro tips to see data trends over time, set thresholds to track key metrics, and more.

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📌 Grafana tutorial ⇒ https://tsdb.co/grafana-viz-tutorial
📌 Join Timescale developer Slack ⇒ https://slack.timescale.com
📌 Start a free Timescale cloud trial ($300 in cloud credits to start 🎉) ⇒ https://tsdb.co/timescale-cloud-trial
📌 Read Timescale Prometheus observability design doc ⇒ https://tsdb.co/prom-design-doc
📌 Get TimescaleDB observability Helm charts (GitHub) ⇒ https://tsdb.co/timescale-prom-repo

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📚 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀
⏱ 0:00 ⇒ Introduction
⏱ 2:43 ⇒ Why use Grafana?
⏱ 5:45 ⇒ Grafana Orientation and Data Source Set up
⏱ 12:33 ⇒ Let's code! 6 common visuals you can use today
⏱14:06 ⇒ DevOps data Visuals (Single Stat, Gauge, Graph, Single Stat with Background)
⏱ 37:44 ⇒ IoT and Geospatial Visuals (World Map and Variables)
⏱ 54:00 ⇒ Public dataset Visuals (Graph with Series-override)
⏱ 59:11 ⇒ Recap and next steps
⏱ 59:58 ⇒ Resouces and Q&A