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Building IoT Visualizations using Grafana

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803236124
Pages 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Rodrigo Juan Hernández Rodrigo Juan Hernández
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Rodrigo Juan Hernández is an electronic engineer passionate about IoT even before it existed. He has been working on tech for more than 18 years until now. For several years he has been focusing on the IoT ecosystem. He is currently giving consultation about IoT systems to clients around the world. He also produces content online about IoT and related subjects and the content is available on his blog, Youtube channel, and social networks - mainly LinkedIn. He also writes for companies that need good quality content about their products and services. His main objective nowadays is helping others to understand and implement IoT solutions.
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface Part 1: Meeting Grafana
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Grafana Chapter 2: Exploring Grafana Part 2: Collecting Data from IoT Devices
Chapter 3: Connecting IoT Devices Chapter 4: Data Sources for Grafana Chapter 5: Using Time Series Databases Part 3: Connecting Data Sources and Building Dashboards
Chapter 6: Getting Data and Building Dashboards Chapter 7: Managing Plugins Chapter 8: Organizing and Managing Dashboards Part 4: Performing Analytics and Notifications
Chapter 9: Performing Analytics in Grafana Chapter 10: Alerting and Notifications in Grafana Part 5: Integrating Grafana with Other Platforms
Chapter 11: Using Grafana with Prometheus Chapter 12: Using Grafana with OpenSearch Chapter 13: Showing Data from LibreNMS in Grafana Chapter 14: Integrations for Grafana Cloud Other Books You May Enjoy

SQL versus NoSQL databases

In this section, we will explore these two types of databases and define their characteristics and differences. Learning about databases is crucial to understanding how to manage, query, and process data in the context of Grafana.

Let’s start with SQL databases.

SQL databases

This type of database was invented in the 1970s, and it is widely used today.

A relational database management system (RDBMS) is a system that manages data according to a relational model. This type of database represents data in tables, where each of the rows has a unique ID, called an index or ID. This field serves to relate the information among the tables.

Imagine you have a user database for accessing a web application. One table can store all the information that belongs to a specific user. Another table can have the permissions granted to each user. In this case, the user ID is the link between both tables. So, you can relate each user with the corresponding...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Rodrigo Juan Hernández
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Rodrigo Juan Hernández is an electronic engineer passionate about IoT even before it existed. He has been working on tech for more than 18 years until now. For several years he has been focusing on the IoT ecosystem. He is currently giving consultation about IoT systems to clients around the world. He also produces content online about IoT and related subjects and the content is available on his blog, Youtube channel, and social networks - mainly LinkedIn. He also writes for companies that need good quality content about their products and services. His main objective nowadays is helping others to understand and implement IoT solutions.
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