Grafana is built to be extensible, meaning that a wide variety of plugins exist to control how data is managed and visualized. You can even create your own plugins if you have needs that aren’t met by what’s available already. But that doesn’t mean that it isn’t useful without lots of extra effort! Grafana ships with a number of powerful visualizations natively, as well as functionality to let you run ad hoc queries to find the data you’re looking for.
In this chapter, we’ll take a look at the options available ...
