Introducing the Stat panel

After the Graph panel, the Stat panel may well be the next most used panel for a number of reasons:

• It makes it extremely easy to see the value at a distance.
• It boils down a large dataset into a single value.
• It can feature several visually important cues.

Before we create any panels, Stat or otherwise, we need to get some data to display. We'll continue to use our US National Weather Service (NWS) weather data, especially as we're getting more familiar with the structure of the data.

Loading the dataset

The steps to load the dataset are as follows:

1. In order to choreograph our services, we'll be using the same docker-compose.yml file as we did in Chapter 4, Connecting Grafana to a Data Source:

version: "3"

services:
  grafana:
    image: "grafana/grafana:latest"
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    environment...