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Getting Started with Grafana: Real-Time Dashboards for IT and Business Operations

Name: Getting Started with Grafana: Real-Time Dashboards for IT and Business Operations
Author: Ronald McCollam
ISBN: 9781484283097

by Ronald McCollam

August 2022

Beginner

367 pages

8h 31m

English

Apress

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R. McCollamGetting Started with Grafanahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8309-7_13

13. Programmatic Grafana

Ronald McCollam¹

(1)

Somerville, MA, USA

Up until now, all the ways that we have seen to use Grafana have been through its web user interface. This UI is fantastic for creating dashboards, laying out panels, and organizing resources. But when you need to manage Grafana at a large scale or as part of a continuous deployment system, having to click buttons and type information into text boxes can be slow and limiting. Fortunately, Grafana provides a rich application programming interface (API) for automating these actions.

In this chapter, we’ll explore ...

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