Awesome Grafana

A curated list of amazingly awesome Grafana resources.

Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application.

Contents

• Official resources
• Dashboards as code
• Talks
• Blogs

Official resources

• Website - Official Grafana project website.
• GitHub repository - Grafanas' source code, issues discussion and collaboration.
• Documentation - Official Grafana documentation.
• Blog - Official Grafana blog.
• Grafana Play Home - Grafana's sandbox and demo installation.

Dashboards as code

• Grafonnet - Grafonnet provides an easy and maintainable way of writing Grafana dashboards based on Jsonnet.
• grafanalib - Python library for building Grafana dashboards by Weaveworks.

Talks

• Foolproof Kubernetes Dashboards for Sleep-Deprived On Calls - A talk on dashboard maturity levels.
• Managing Grafana Dashboards with grafonnet and git - Exiting talk on how to build and test dashboards as code.
• GrafanaCONline: Powerful graph representations in Grafana - Talk about advanced features of Grafana.
• How to configure Grafana as code - Tips and tricks about how to fully manage your Grafana instances from code including Grafonnet.

Blogs

• 3 tips to improve your Grafana dashboard design - A beginners guide to best practices in Grafana dashboard design.
• The USE Method - Whilst not dashboard specific, Brendan Gregg's USE Method is always a good read to get ideas for what to monitor:
• The RED Method: How to Instrument Your Services - Blog post about the RED method as an differnet approch to the USE method.
• Grafana Dashboards as Code with Grafonnet - Find out how Grafana dashboards can be managed as code using Grafonnet.
• Grafana dashboards-as-code with grafonnet-lib - Setting up and building Grafana dashboards-as-code with jsonnet and grafonnet-lib.
• Grafana and Grafonnet Dashboards - Getting started guide about Grafonnet including Grafana alerts.

Credits

Thanks to Tom for helping kickstarting this list on Reddit