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title: TimeIO Grafana (Visualization tool)
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Grafana is an open-source platform for building dashboards and visualizing data from various sources, such as databases, APIs, and file systems. It's primarily used for monitoring and analyzing data in real-time, making it a popular tool among DevOps teams, system administrators, and data analysts.
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TimeIO features a dedicated Grafana instance, providing access to your own managed data streams. Additionally, other data sources can be integrated.
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Some key features of Grafana include:
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## Grafana
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1. Data visualization: Grafana offers a wide range of visualization options, including charts, graphs, tables, and more.
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2. Multi-datasource support: Grafana can connect to multiple data sources, such as Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, among others.
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3. Customizable dashboards: Users can create custom dashboards with various panels, each displaying different data visualizations.
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4. Alerting and notification: Grafana allows users to set up alerts and notifications based on specific conditions, such as threshold values or anomalies.
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5. User authentication and authorization: Grafana supports various authentication methods, including OAuth, LDAP, and Active Directory.
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6. Extensive plugin ecosystem: Grafana has a large community-driven plugin ecosystem, offering additional features, data sources, and visualizations.
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7. Improved monitoring and troubleshooting: Grafana helps users identify issues and trends in their data, making it easier to troubleshoot and optimize systems.
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8. Enhanced data analysis: Grafana's visualization capabilities help users gain insights into their data, making it easier to make data-driven decisions.
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9. Increased productivity: Grafana's customizable dashboards and alerting system help teams stay on top of their data and respond to issues quickly.
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10. calability: Grafana can handle large amounts of data and is designed to scale with growing organizations.
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* The panels are created automatically based on the first panel and a database query, so editing is only possible for the first panel. (Unklar??)
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Examples of use cases for Grafana are:
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- Monitoring IT infrastructure: Grafana is often used to monitor servers, networks, and applications.
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- IoT and device monitoring: Grafana can be used to monitor and analyze data from IoT devices, such as sensors and machines.
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- Scientific research and experimentation: Grafana's flexibility and extensibility make it a popular choice among researchers and scientists.
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## TimeIO - Grafana
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### Overview
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#### Dashboards
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##### automatic generated dashboards
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* The panels are created automatically based on the first panel and a database query, so editing is only possible for the first panel. (Unklar??)
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##### Dashboard journal
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* In the Grafana dashboard there is an expandable Journal bar at the top, in which information on data flows is listed.
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(There is not yet much meaningful information on the External SFTP and External API ingest types - we are working on this).
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#### Best Practice
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#### Panels
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### Best Practice
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1. Create a separate dashboard for your own customisations or save the automatically created dashboard under a different name !
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As the automatically created dashboards are overwritten when the thing is saved again at the front end. |
