DevOps Intermediate

What is Grafana?

An open-source analytics and visualization platform for creating dashboards from various data sources.

Grafana creates interactive, customizable dashboards for monitoring data. It connects to Prometheus, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, InfluxDB, CloudWatch, and many other data sources. Dashboards include graphs, gauges, tables, heatmaps, and alerts.

Features include dashboard templates, variables for dynamic filtering, alerting rules, annotations, and team-based access control. Grafana Cloud offers a managed service. It is the visualization layer in most modern monitoring stacks.

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A storage and distribution service for container images, similar to a package repository but for Docker images.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

The practice of managing infrastructure through machine-readable configuration files rather than manual processes.

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Canary Deployment

A deployment strategy that gradually rolls out changes to a small subset of users before deploying to the entire infrastructure.

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