Grafana - dashboards and monitoring in practice
This training focuses on the practical use of Grafana to create dashboards and alerts with multiple data sources such as PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Grafana Loki, Grafana Tempo, Elasticsearch, and Zabbix.
Ideal for teams that…
Cloud, automation and CI/CD in practice — hands-on for engineering teams.
Build diverse visualizations and dashboards from multiple data sources, using over a dozen visualization types and dynamic panels with variables
Create your own alerting system tailored to your needs and manage notifications with Grafana Alerting
Gain a solid foundation in Prometheus, learning PromQL for custom queries, expressions, and alerts
Extend Grafana with plugins, and use data transformation tools for deeper analysis and more dynamic dashboards
Receive a PDF guide with key administrative settings and Grafana server installation instructions
What you should know before we start
- Participants must have their own laptop with any operating system. Training software will be provided on a VM accessible in the public cloud.
- Grafana access will be through any web browser (e.g., Firefox, Chrome) installed on the participant’s machine.
- Basic SQL knowledge is recommended but not required (queries needed for exercises will be provided).
What we actually do
Day 1
- · Grafana architecture
- · GUI overview
- · Running and configuring Grafana
- · OSS (open-source) vs Enterprise editions
- · PostgreSQL
- · Prometheus
- · Grafana Loki
- · Grafana Tempo
- · Elasticsearch
- · Zabbix
- · Queries – retrieving data
- · Panels – visualizing query results
- · Transforms – modifying and analyzing data
- · Rows – panel organization
- · Tags, links, annotations – extra dashboard features
- · Folders and playlists – organizing dashboards
- · Importing and exporting dashboards
- · Time series
- · Bar chart
- · Gauge
- · Pie chart
- · Bar gauge
- · Stat
- · Table
- · GeoMap
- · State Timeline
- · Status History
- · Alert List
- · Annotations List
- · Dashboard List
- · Creating and applying variables
- · Types and formats of variables
- · Dynamic queries, panels, and dashboards
Day 2
- · Alert rules – configuration and features
- · Contact Points – recipients
- · Notification Policies – targeted delivery
- · Silence and Mute – suppressing notifications
- · Prometheus architecture and operating model
- · Practical introduction to PromQL
- · Recording and alerting rules
- · Visualizing metrics in Grafana
- · Installing and configuring plugins
- · Practical examples of selected plugins
- · Organizations
- · Users
- · Teams
- · Provisioning
- · Authentication methods
- · Troubleshooting
From brief to retro in 30 days.
Brief & diagnosis
A call with the team lead + a short survey for participants. We define goals, gap and context.
Program customization
We adapt modules, case studies and code examples to your stack. Approval in 5 days.
Workshop
Trainer-led sessions, hands-on, code review. Mentor available between sessions too.
Retro + report
Outcome report for the team and lead. 30 days of consulting included.
Send a brief. We'll reply within 1 day.
After a short brief we'll prepare a program and a quote. No obligations — it's just a starting point.
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