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Grafana: From Discovery to Expertise

Discover how to administer Grafana, configure data sources, and build dynamic, interactive dashboards to visualize your data and metrics.

12 chapters35 lessonsEN
At your pace, through practice.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Connect Grafana to Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch and other sources
  • Build dynamic dashboards with variables and transformations
  • Provision dashboards and data sources as code
  • Set up alerts and get started with Grafana Cloud

🎯 Level : Intermediate👥 Who it is for : Analysts, operators and developers building dashboards

LEARNING PATH

Course curriculum

0Course overview1 lesson
  1. Assessment quizQuiz · ⏱ 10 min
1Introduction3 lessons
  1. InstallationLesson
  2. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)Lesson
  3. How to make the most of the documentationLesson
2Administration2 lessons

Understand the settings needed to secure your Grafana server

  1. Provisioning folderLesson
  2. Grafana Provisioning: automate dashboards and data sourcesArticle · ⏱ 17 min
3Connections4 lessons

Understand how to configure and retrieve data from various sources.

  1. ConnectionsLesson
  2. Data sourcesArticle · ⏱ 3 min
  3. ElasticsearchArticle · ⏱ 3 min
  4. PrometheusArticle · ⏱ 13 min
4Dashboards5 lessons

Group your dashlets into a coherent dashboard

  1. IntroductionLesson
  2. Mistakes to avoidLesson
  3. What is a dashletLesson
  4. Before you startLesson
  5. Grafana DashboardLesson
5Variables and constants4 lessons

Make your configurations dynamic with variables.

  1. The role of variablesLesson
  2. Global variablesLesson
  3. Local variablesArticle · ⏱ 4 min
  4. Variables: complete guideArticle · ⏱ 6 min
6Queries1 lesson

Understand how to filter your data

  1. Mastering queries: PromQL, LogQL, SQL and expressionsArticle · ⏱ 10 min
7Transformations4 lessons

For some visualizations it matters that the data has the right type, the right structure... transformations will help you adapt your data.

  1. IntroductionLesson
  2. Table viewLesson
  3. Data typesLesson
  4. Transformations in detailArticle · ⏱ 4 min
8Visualizations2 lessons

Create your first visualizations

  1. IntroductionLesson
  2. Value MappingsLesson
9Grafana Cloud1 lesson

A few enterprise use cases

  1. Grafana Cloud: getting started with the managed platformArticle · ⏱ 10 min
10Use cases7 lessons

A few enterprise use cases

  1. Project 1: HTTP status codesHands-on lab · ⏱ 49 min · Level 2/5
  2. Project 2: Working with the Dynatrace APIHands-on lab · ⏱ 21 min · Level 2/5
  3. Project 3: Working with dataHands-on lab · ⏱ 1 h 31 · Level 3/5
  4. Project 4: Working with ElasticsearchHands-on lab · ⏱ 2 h 27 · Level 3/5
  5. Project 5: Getting hands-onHands-on lab · ⏱ 2 h 41 · Level 3/5
  6. Grafana Assistant: AI for observabilityArticle · ⏱ 6 min
  7. Grafana or Kibana?Article · ⏱ 3 min
11Best practices1 lesson

Recommended practices to run the product in production.

  1. Grafana best practicesArticle · ⏱ 10 min

LEARN BY DOING

Use cases & applications

Infrastructure monitoring (ITOM)

Visualize the health of servers, network, and databases at a glance.

Application performance monitoring (APM)

Monitor response times, error rates and application traffic.

IoT and home automation

Display real-time sensor data (temperature, humidity, consumption).

Business dashboards (BI)

Aggregate sales data, sign-ups, or business KPIs.

Centralized alerting

Trigger notifications via Slack, Email or PagerDuty when thresholds are exceeded.

Unified observability

Correlate Prometheus metrics, Loki logs, and Tempo traces in one place.

Recommended prerequisites

Prometheus: From Discovery to Expertise

What next?

Grafana Loki : de la découverte à l'expertiseGrafana Tempo : de la découverte à l'expertiseThanos : de la découverte à l'expertise

Frequently asked questions

What is Grafana?

It's an open-source platform for visualizing and analyzing metrics.

Which data sources are supported?

Grafana supports many sources such as Prometheus, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.

What's the difference between Grafana and Kibana?

Kibana is closely tied to Elasticsearch for logs, while Grafana is more agnostic and excels at metrics and multi-source integration.

Can you configure alerts?

Yes, Grafana has a powerful built-in alerting system.

How do you secure Grafana?

Through authentication (LDAP, OAuth), HTTPS, and fine-grained permissions per folder and dashboard.

What is a dashboard variable?

It makes dashboards dynamic (e.g. filtering by server or environment).

Can dashboards be exported?

Yes, in JSON format to back them up or share them.

Grafana Cloud or self-hosted?

Grafana Cloud is a managed SaaS service; self-hosting gives you full control over the infrastructure.

What are annotations?

Visual markers on graphs to indicate events (deployments, outages).

Can Grafana be used for logs?

Yes, notably with Loki, the log solution built into the Grafana ecosystem.