Grafana

Grafana turns your data into dashboards. It connects to time-series databases, SQL databases, log stores, and cloud services, then lets you build panels that visualize metrics, logs, and traces in a single pane of glass. With alerting built in and dashboard-as-code workflows, it scales from a developer's local setup to a company-wide observability platform.

This skill covers Docker deployment, configuring data sources, building panels, setting up alerts, and managing dashboards as code with JSON.

Docker Setup

The simplest way to run Grafana is the official Docker image. This starts Grafana with persistent storage so your dashboards survive restarts.

# docker-compose.yml — Grafana with persistent storage and default admin credentials
version: "3.8"