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R. McCollamGetting Started with Grafanahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8309-7_11

11. Alerting

Ronald McCollam1  
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Somerville, MA, USA
 

Grafana is primarily a visual tool, designed to make it easy to present data to viewers in a clear and beautiful way. But it can also watch that data for you so that you don’t have to constantly check to see what’s happening in your environment.

The Grafana alerting system lets you set up rules that fire when certain conditions occur. For example, if the vibration frequency of a piece of machinery increases beyond a certain threshold, you might need to take some action: checking the equipment out, possibly even shutting ...

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