Building IoT Visualizations using Grafana

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 Description
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
Who this book is for
This 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.

Table of Contents
Getting started with Grafana
Sections, functionality, and user management.
Connecting IoT devices
Data sources for Grafana
Storing data in time-series databases
Getting data and building dashboards.
Managing plugins
Organizing and managing dashboards
Performing analytics in Grafana
Alerting and notifications in Grafana
Using Grafana with Prometheus
Using Grafana with Open Distro for Elasticsearch
Showing data from Librenms with Grafana
Integrations for Grafana Cloud