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Published inJun 2020
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Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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We've reached the end of Chapter 10, Exploring Logs with Grafana's Loki. In this chapter, we learned how to use Explore with the Loki data source to perform ad hoc analysis of logs and aggregated log metrics and we deployed a Loki pipeline to aggregate filesystem log files and, by using a custom driver, the logs generated by Docker containers. Then, we used Prometheus to collect dozens of metrics about those container services. Finally, using the Split feature, we made side-by-side comparisons of both the log and service metrics.

With that, we've also reached the end of Section 2: Real-World Grafana. In Section 3: Managing Grafana, we'll step out of our role as an end user of Grafana and into that of an administrator. We'll learn about how to manage dashboards, users, and teams. We'll also look at how to secure the Grafana server by authenticating our users with services such as OAuth2 and LDAP. Finally, we'll explore the rapidly...

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Published in: Jun 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838826581

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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
Read more about Eric Salituro