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Grafana data sources

Grafana data sources

From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance

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Grafana data sources

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- [Instructor] Grafana is designed to be a powerful visualization platform that connects to various backends to query, display, and alert on your data. In this video, you will learn everything you need to know about using data sources. In chapter five, we'll then explore the Prometheus data source in more detail. In Grafana, data sources are essentially plugins that let you pull in data from a wide range of systems, such as time series databases like Prometheus, InfluxDB, and Graphite. Search and log systems like Elasticsearch and Loki. Cloud monitoring services like AWS CloudWatch. Relational databases like MySQL. Tracing and profiling systems like Jaeger, Zipkin, and so on. There are four main types of data sources in Grafana. Built-in data sources are built into Grafana and provide support for commonly used data sources like Prometheus and Postgres. Community data sources are built and maintained by the Grafana community. Enterprise data sources are built and maintained by Grafana…

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