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Joel Bastos
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Joel Bastos

Joel Bastos is an open source supporter and contributor, with a background in infrastructure security and automation. He is always striving for the standardization of processes, code maintainability, and code reusability. He has defined, led, and implemented critical, highly available, and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale infrastructures in several organizations, with Prometheus as the cornerstone. He has worked at two unicorn companies in Portugal and at one of the largest transaction-oriented gaming companies in the world. Previously, he has supported several governmental entities with projects such as the Public Key Infrastructure for the Portuguese citizen card. You can find his blogs at kintoandar and on Twitter with the handle @kintoandar.
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Pedro Araújo
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Pedro Araújo

Pedro Arajo is a site reliability and automation engineer and has defined and implemented several standards for monitoring at scale. His contributions have been fundamental in connecting development teams to infrastructure. He is highly knowledgeable about infrastructure, but his passion is in the automation and management of large-scale, highly-transactional systems. Pedro has contributed to several open source projects, such as Riemann, OpenTSDB, Sensu, Prometheus, and Thanos. You can find him on Twitter with the handle @phcrva.
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Visualizing your data

Data visualization is one of the simplest ways to produce or consume information. Prometheus exposes a well-defined API, where PromQL queries can produce raw data for visualizations.

Currently, the best external software for visualization is Grafana, which we will explain thoroughly in Chapter 10, Discovering and Creating Grafana Dashboards. The Grafana team has made its integration with Prometheus seamless, and the result is a delightful user experience.

The Prometheus server also ships with two internal visualizations components:

  • Expression browser: Here, you can run PromQL directly to quickly query data and visualize it instantly:
Figure 2.4: The Prometheus expression browser interface
  • Consoles: These are web pages that are built using the Golang templating language and are served by the Prometheus server itself. This approach allows you to have...
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Joel Bastos

Joel Bastos is an open source supporter and contributor, with a background in infrastructure security and automation. He is always striving for the standardization of processes, code maintainability, and code reusability. He has defined, led, and implemented critical, highly available, and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale infrastructures in several organizations, with Prometheus as the cornerstone. He has worked at two unicorn companies in Portugal and at one of the largest transaction-oriented gaming companies in the world. Previously, he has supported several governmental entities with projects such as the Public Key Infrastructure for the Portuguese citizen card. You can find his blogs at kintoandar and on Twitter with the handle @kintoandar.
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Pedro Araújo

Pedro Arajo is a site reliability and automation engineer and has defined and implemented several standards for monitoring at scale. His contributions have been fundamental in connecting development teams to infrastructure. He is highly knowledgeable about infrastructure, but his passion is in the automation and management of large-scale, highly-transactional systems. Pedro has contributed to several open source projects, such as Riemann, OpenTSDB, Sensu, Prometheus, and Thanos. You can find him on Twitter with the handle @phcrva.
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