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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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That's it for the graph panel for now! I invite you to play around with the various settings, especially those in the Visualization panel. Here are some simple exercises for you to try out:

  1. Create multiple data series in the Query tab. Try out the different Scenarios to see how they create different kinds of data. Rearrange the order to see what effect it has on the graph.
  2. Play with different combinations of drawing objects in the Displaysection. Change the fill or size of points, lines, and bars.
  3. Turn on the legend and test out its many options. Try clicking on various elements in the legend itself – you might find some surprises!

This chapter completesSection 1: Getting Started With Grafana. In this section, we installed the Grafana server, checked out the Grafana application interface, set up some simple dashboards, and graphed test data sources. In the next section,Section 2: Real-World Grafana, we...

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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