Grafana#

Grafana is an analytics and interactive visualization web application. It creates charts and dashboards based on data captured by InfluxDB or other sources.

https://grafana.com/

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Operating Systems#

These guides are written for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 based operating systems and are compatible with AlmaLinux 8 and Rocky Linux 8.

Access Controls#

The Grafana node should only be accessed directly using SSH by system administrators. Standard cluster user accounts should not be able to SSH into the Grafana node.

The Grafana application manages application level access.

Hostnames#

These guides use the following example Hostnames and FQDN for Grafana. FQDNs can be provided by utilizing a DNS server or installing a hosts file on the system itself.

Note

An example /etc/hosts file has been provided: hosts

Hostname

FQDN

Function

Type

IPv4 Address

grafana

grafana.engwsc.example.com

Grafana

VM Guest

192.168.1.86

Guides#

The following guides are required to deploy Grafana:

  1. Grafana OS Installation Guide

  2. Grafana Deployment Guide

The following are Grafana usage guides:

  1. Grafana Usage Guide