Learn Grafana 10.x - Second Edition

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Streaming Real-Time IoT Data from Telegraf Agent to Grafana Live

In this chapter, we’re going to dip a toe into the exciting world of observability. While you’ve probably heard that observability is currently one of the hottest fields in IT, you may be wondering what it is, and how Grafana supports it. Here is a definition of observability from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_observability):

“In distributed systems, observability is the ability to collect data about program execution, internal states of modules, and communication between components.”

This is a little bit abstract, so let me offer my refinement:

Observability is the practice of collecting metrics data from telemetered systems, scanning, detecting, and alerting ...