Creating a Weather Dashboard

Out of the box, Grafana can generate a wide array of visualizations appropriate for different types of data. You can create bar charts, stat panels, gauges, heatmaps, line graphs, and many more. To get comfortable with a few of the visualization types that Grafana offers, you’ll be creating a dashboard that leverages the stat panel, gauge, and time-series chart types. The end product for what we’ll be building in this chapter will look something like this:

images/complete_dashboard.png

Feel free to deviate from the instructions if you want to make the dashboard your own and want a different look and feel. With that said, let’s start off by creating ...

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