NjmonGrafanaGraphingWorkshop101

njmon Grafana Graphing Workshop 101

This is a hands-on Lab Workshop to get you started with your first few Grafana Graphs on njmon data held in a InfluxDB Time-Series Database

You create a few simple graphs and change all sorts of details, colours, styles, dark and light screens etc.
- A set of Graphs is known as a Dashboard
There are a number of predefined Dashboard to study
Then you can (optional) create a Template Dashboard - that lets you switch between servers
Optionally, try graphing with variable resources like file-systems, disks and networks
- Grafana makes this simple once you know how
Finally, download a pre-defined graph from grafana.com and load it
The Basic graphs may take an hour
The more Advanced parts, toward the end, will take longer.
- You might read them once and then treat them as reference material for later
Most users will download the pre-defined graphs and add graphs to them

Alternatively, watch Nigel do the Lab from YouTube https://youtu.be/XKs5dKGuFe8

The below may allow cut'n'paste to get the syntax correct - watch out for those pesky single and double quotes!

Set Query to: SHOW TAG VALUES WITH KEY = "host" WHERE os ='AIX'
Be VERY CAREFUL with double "host" (tag name) & single quotes 'AIX' (tag value)
For Linux use: WHERE os !='AIX'

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