Grafana is a powerful open-source analytics and monitoring platform designed to visualize and analyze time-series data from various data sources. It allows users to create interactive, customizable dashboards that can display data in multiple formats, such as graphs, charts, tables, and heatmaps. With its intuitive interface, Grafana makes it easy for users to monitor applications, infrastructure, and network performance.

One of Grafana’s standout features is its support for a wide range of data sources, including popular time-series databases like Prometheus, InfluxDB, and Graphite, as well as traditional relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. This flexibility enables organizations to centralize their monitoring efforts and gain valuable insights from diverse data sets.

Grafana also offers advanced features like alerting, which allows users to set up notifications based on specific metrics or thresholds. This capability helps teams proactively address potential issues before they impact performance. Additionally, Grafana supports collaboration among team members, enabling them to share dashboards and insights easily.

The platform is highly extensible, with a rich ecosystem of plugins that enhance its functionality. Users can integrate Grafana with various tools and services, such as Slack for notifications or machine learning models for predictive analytics.

Overall, Grafana is widely adopted in DevOps, IT, and application monitoring, making it an essential tool for organizations seeking to improve their operational efficiency and make data-driven decisions. Its community-driven development ensures continuous updates and new features, keeping it at the forefront of monitoring solutions.

To subscribe to this product from Azure Marketplace and initiate an instance using the Azure compute service, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Azure Marketplace and subscribe to the desired product.
2. Search for “virtual machines” and select “Virtual machines” under Services.
3. Click on “Add” in the Virtual machines page, which will lead you to the Create a virtual machine page.
4. In the Basics tab:

• • Ensure the correct subscription is chosen under Project details.
  • Opt for creating a new resource group by selecting “Create new resource group” and name it as “myResourceGroup.”

5. Under Instance details:

• • Enter “myVM” as the Virtual machine name.
  • Choose “East US” as the Region.
  • Select “Ubuntu 18.04 LTS” as the Image.
  • Leave other settings as default.

6. For Administrator account:

• • Pick “SSH public key.”
  • Provide your user name and paste your public key, ensuring no leading or trailing white spaces.

7. Under Inbound port rules > Public inbound ports:

• • Choose “Allow selected ports.”
  • Select “SSH (22)” and “HTTP (80)” from the drop-down.

8. Keep the remaining settings at their defaults and click on “Review + create” at the bottom of the page.
9. The “Create a virtual machine” page will display the details of the VM you’re about to create. Once ready, click on “Create.”
10. The deployment process will take a few minutes. Once it’s finished, proceed to the next section.

To connect to the virtual machine:

1. Access the overview page of your VM and click on “Connect.”
2. On the “Connect to virtual machine” page:

• • Keep the default options for connecting via IP address over port 22.
  • A connection command for logging in will be displayed. Click the button to copy the command. Here’s an example of what the SSH connection command looks like:
    “`
    ssh [email protected]
    “`

3. Using the same bash shell that you used to generate your SSH key pair, you can either reopen the Cloud Shell by selecting >_ again

or going to https://shell.azure.com/bash.
4. Paste the SSH connection command into the shell to initiate an SSH session.

Usage/Deployment Instructions

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Note: Search product on Azure marketplace and click on “Get it now”

Click on Continue

Click on Create

Creating a Virtual Machine, enter or select appropriate values for zone, machine type, resource group and so on as per your choice.

After Process of Create Virtual Machine. You have got an Option Go to Resource Group 

Click Go to Resource Group

Click on the Network Security Group: grafana-nsg

Click on Inbound Security Rule

Click on Add

Add Port

Add Port

Destination
Port Ranges Section*  (where default
value is 8080)

3000

Select Protocol as
TCP

Option Action is
to be Allow

Click on Add     

Click on Refresh

Copy the
Public IP Address

SSH into terminal and run these commands:

$ sudo su
$ sudo apt update

Look for the User and Group directives. By default, they should be set to grafana. Ensure that the user and group exist on your system:

$ sudo useradd -r -s /bin/false Grafana
$ sudo groupadd Grafana

Set Ownership of Files:

$ sudo chown -R grafana:grafana /usr/share/Grafana
$ sudo chown -R grafana:grafana /var/lib/Grafana
$ sudo chown -R grafana:grafana /etc/Grafana

Reload Systemd and Restart Grafana:

$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl restart grafana-server

Check Service Status Again:

$ sudo service grafana-server status

Use the browser to access the application at http://”instance ip address”

Login Creds:

Username: admin
Password: admin123

Welcome to the Grafana Dashboard

ThankYou!!!