Learn Grafana 7.0

Turning streams of metrics and logs into something you can actually interpret is the practical challenge at the heart of Learn Grafana 7.0. Eric Salituro starts with Grafana’s interface and core visualization ideas, then guides readers through the queries, panels, dashboards, and monitoring workflows used to make data easier to explore.

Start with the Grafana foundations

The opening chapters introduce data visualization, Grafana’s interface, and the graph panel. Along the way, the book explains how to set up Grafana, connect to its server, work with queries, and adjust graph settings such as axes, legends, thresholds, and alerts. This groundwork gives readers a clearer sense of how a data source, a query, and a visualization work together.

Connect data to useful views

Practical examples bring Grafana into contact with data sources including Prometheus and InfluxDB. Readers work through querying and aggregation, then explore visualization panels such as Stat, Gauge, Bar Gauge, Worldmap, and Table. The emphasis is on configuring displays to make metrics more legible—not simply placing charts on a screen.

Build dashboards for ongoing use

As the material progresses, it covers dashboard design, templates, links, annotations, sharing, and organization. These features help readers think beyond a single graph and create dashboards that are easier to navigate and maintain.

Explore monitoring and administration

The book also addresses alerting, permissions for users and teams, external-service authentication, cloud monitoring, and log exploration with Grafana Loki. Together, these topics offer a broad introduction to the ways Grafana 7.0 can support both analysis and operational monitoring.

Who may find it useful

This book is written for readers new to Grafana, including data and business-intelligence analysts and others interested in time-series analysis, monitoring, or interactive dashboards. Basic familiarity with data visualization and some Python experience can help, but previous Grafana experience is not required.

Note: The instructions and interface discussed are specific to Grafana 7.0, so readers using newer versions may encounter differences.