By this point, you should have already selected a suitable metrics collection solution for your applications and instrumented your code base to emit the metrics that you are interested in tracking. To make sense of the collected data and reason about it, we need to visualize it.
For this task, we will be using Grafana [4] as our tool of choice. Grafana offers a convenient, end-to-end solution that can be used to retrieve metrics from a variety of different data sources and construct dashboards for visualizing them. The supported list of data sources includes Prometheus, InfluxDB, Graphite, Google Stackdriver, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, SQL databases (MySQL, Postgres, and SQL Server), and Elasticsearch.
If you have already set up one of the preceding data sources and want to evaluate Grafana, the easiest way to do so is to spin up...
