9 docs tagged with "Advanced"

Learn how to personalize Grafana with advanced customization tricks for icons, styles, and more. Explore tips for Grafana 10, 11, and beyond.

Scaling Grafana for relentless 24/7 traffic and hordes of users starts with a smart setup: at least two Grafana UI instances working in tandem. Here’s how it comes together.

Need to pull external data into Grafana? JSON API data sources are your go-to plugins—they fetch files via a link, parse them per your instructions, and shape them into Grafana data frames. Let’s dive into how they work and why they matter.

Provisioning lets you streamline Grafana by pushing configurations—like JSON or YAML files—straight into your instance. It’s a game-changer for managing setups across environments.

In this guide, we explore the extensive set of Prometheus metrics exposed by Grafana 12.0.2. These metrics provide deep insights into the performance, health, and behavior of your Grafana instance, enabling effective monitoring and troubleshooting.

When folks ask, “What’s your go-to database for Grafana?” our answer is clear: PostgreSQL with the Timescale extension. It’s a powerhouse combo that’s hard to beat.

The Canvas panel in Grafana isn’t fully polished yet, but it’s more than ready for prime time. A stunning demo—think house energy metrics paired with animated wind turbines—left us itching to dive in and build something ourselves.

To allow unsigned plugins in Grafana, just add a comma-separated list of plugin identifiers to load them without signatures. Here’s how to configure it for Docker or a host installation.

Over a weekend, we embarked on an exciting challenge to monitor and visualize key metrics for our website's content. The goal was to gain insights into user behavior, such as who is visiting our site, what content (blogs or documentation) they are most interested in, and where they are coming from geographically or through referral sources. The outcome of this project was a sleek, interactive Grafana dashboard that provides a comprehensive view of these metrics, powered by a robust data pipeline consisting of Nginx, Loki, and Promtail.