Learn how to visualize, monitor, and understand your systems with Grafana

What you'll learn
- Understand the fundamentals of observability and how Grafana fits into the DevOps ecosystem
- Install, configure, secure, and upgrade Grafana on Linux environment
- Explore Grafana's architecture, dashboards, plugins, and system components
- Work hands-on with Grafana's interface, data sources, dashboards, panels, and visualizations
- Visualize CSV datasets using the Infinity plugin
- Use GitHub as a data source to pull and explore repository insights
- Integrate Grafana with Amazon CloudWatch for cloud-level monitoring
- Set up Prometheus, connect it to Grafana, and explore dashboard templates
- Install and configure Loki for log aggregation
- Set up Grafana Alloy and build a complete logging pipeline
- Collect Nginx logs through Alloy and visualize them in Loki
- Connect Grafana to MySQL and perform SQL-based visualization and monitoring
- Configure alerting, notification channels, and alert rules in Grafana
- Manage users, teams, organizations, permissions, and authentication in Grafana
- Integrate Grafana with Kubernetes for cluster-level observability

Requirements
- No prior experience needed
- Basic Linux familiarity is helpful
- AWS Free Tier account

Description
Grafana is an open-source visualization and monitoring platform that transforms raw data from various sources into clean, interactive dashboards.

What's in this course?

Grafana has grown from a simple dashboarding tool into the visual heartbeat of modern observability. This course is your hands-on journey into mastering Grafana, layer by layer, demo by demo.

Instead of abstract concepts, you'll learn Grafana the practical way: by building dashboards, connecting data sources, visualizing metrics, parsing logs, setting alerts, and integrating real systems like Prometheus, CloudWatch, GitHub, MySQL, and Kubernetes.

Each concept is connected to a real demonstration. No edited timelines. No perfect runs. You'll see what a real engineer sees, including troubleshooting, fixes, and decision-making in action.

Special Note

By the end, you won't just "use" Grafana, you'll understand it, shape it, and integrate it confidently into real-world workflows.

Course Structure:

Concept-based lectures

Hands-on demonstrations

Course Contents:

Introduction to Grafana

Installing and Setting Up Grafana

Grafana Architecture & System Components

Exploring the Grafana Interface

Working with CSV Data in Grafana

Grafana with GitHub

Integrating Grafana with Amazon CloudWatch

Grafana and Prometheus

Grafana Loki – Log Aggregation

Grafana Alloy and Logging Pipeline

Nginx Logging

Grafana Alerting

Grafana with Databases

Grafana Access Control

K8s Integration with Grafana and Prometheus

All sections of this course are demonstrated live, with the goal of encouraging enrolled users to set up their own environments, complete the exercises, and learn through hands-on experience!

Who this course is for:
- Anyone starting their Grafana journey step-by-step
- Developers, sysadmins, and IT professionals moving into observability roles
- Students and learners who prefer practical, demo-driven explanations
- Cloud and DevOps engineers wanting to master Grafana in real-world setups
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