The IoT developer’s complete guide to building powerful dashboards, analyzing data, and integrating with other platforms

Key Features

Connect devices, store and manage data, and build powerful data visualizations

Integrate Grafana with other systems, such as Prometheus, OpenSearch, and LibreNMS

Learn about message brokers and data forwarders to send data from sensors and systems to different platforms

Grafana is a powerful open source software that helps you to visualize and analyze data gathered from various sources. It allows you to share valuable information through unclouded dashboards, run analytics, and send notifications.

Building IoT Visualizations Using Grafana offers how-to procedures, useful resources, and advice that will help you to implement IoT solutions with confidence. You’ll begin by installing and configuring Grafana according to your needs. Next, you’ll acquire the skills needed to implement your own IoT system using communication brokers, databases, and metric management systems, as well as integrate everything with Grafana. You’ll learn to collect data from IoT devices and store it in databases, as well as discover how to connect databases to Grafana, make queries, and build insightful dashboards. Finally, the book will help you implement analytics for visualizing data, performing automation, and delivering notifications.

By the end of this Grafana book, you’ll be able to build insightful dashboards, perform analytics, and deliver notifications that apply to IoT and IT systems.

What you will learn

Install and configure Grafana in different types of environments

Enable communication between your IoT devices using different protocols

Build data sources by ingesting data from IoT devices

Gather data from Grafana using different types of data sources

Build actionable insights using plugins and analytics

Deliver notifications across several communication channels

Integrate Grafana with other platforms