What is Grafana #
Grafana is an open-source platform used for monitoring, visualization, and analyzing data from a variety of data sources in real-time. It is primarily known for creating interactive and dynamic dashboards that display metrics and logs, allowing users to observe the performance and health of their systems, applications, and services.
Register to Grafana-Cloud #
Grafana can be selfhosted, but unless your are using in a home environment where collection metrics should not be effected by internet connection, Grafana-cloud is your way to go.
Forever free plan includes:
- 50GB logs
- 50GB traces
- 50GB profiles
- 3 active users
- 14-day retention!
- and much more...
This is a lot of Metrics only real restriction are the 14-day retention, this only allow to look back 2 weeks of logs, not ideal for getting yearly insight of your application performance.
Register here: https://grafana.com/auth/sign-up/create-user?refCode=gr8zEPmXdDewWfA
Install Agent/Alloy and add your server to the Dashboard #
Go to your Grafana dashboard:
Choose Platform and Architecture then Click to Install button:
Create a new token:
- Use some deterministic token name rule, e.g.
token-server-NUMBER
Copy the script at the bottom and paste into your server terminal and hit enter:
Test the install with the tested bottom on the page:
