Building IoT Visualizations using Grafana

Grafana is a great software for IoT monitoring, and many developers are learning to use Grafana for IoT and IT monitoring. This book shows you how to connect your devices, store data, manage metrics, and build powerful visualizations using Grafana, along with introducing you to the world of IoT platforms.

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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

Book DescriptionGrafana 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

Who this book is forThis book is for IoT developers who want to build powerful visualizations and analytics for their projects and products. Technicians from the embedded world looking to learn how to build systems and platforms using open source software will also benefit from this book. If you have an interest in technology, IoT, open source, and related subjects then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of administration tasks on Linux-based systems, IP networks and network services, protocols, ports, and related topics will help you make the most out of this book.