How to Visualize Your Data with Grafana
Learn a powerful data monitoring tool
Grafana is a very powerful tool to visualize data. You can use it to build powerful analytical or monitoring dashboards for all kinds of data sources. You can version and share your dashboards with your team very conveniently. Besides, you can use custom variables in Grafana to make your dashboards more flexible and interactive. In this article, we will introduce how to set up Grafana locally and how to build powerful dashboards with it.
We will use Docker to create a Grafana server locally. It is recommended to use a Docker container locally because you can always use the latest version of Grafana and won’t have issues with system libraries. Therefore, be sure to have Docker and docker-compose installed properly on your computer. It’s recommended to follow the instructions on the official pages of Docker and docker-compose, rather than using third-party installation scripts. Docker and docker-compose are very extensively used in modern software development practice. It’s worth spending some time learning the basics and getting them installed properly.
The docker-compose.yaml file used in this article is:
