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Published inJun 2020
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ISBN-139781838826581
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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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Exploring Grafana – the Home dashboard

After logging in to the Grafana application, you should end up on the Home dashboard, as shown. Here, I've annotated some of the key UI elements in the Grafana interface:

Here are the UI elements visible on the default Home dashboard:

  1. The Grafana logo button: Returns the user to the Home dashboard
  2. The dashboards button: Displays the current dashboard
  3. The dashboard settings and view mode
  4. The dashboard panel: Shows the favorite and recently viewed dashboards
  5. The side menu bar: Provides navigation to common tasks and pages
  6. The user and help buttons

Grafana is structured around two main interactive UI components that together constitute its core functionality: dashboards and panels. The page in the preceding screenshot is composed of a side menu bar to the left and a dashboard to the rightspecifically...

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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
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