Observability with Grafana - From Data to Dashboards

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course introduces you to the essential principles of observability with Grafana, guiding you through every step of setting up, configuring, and leveraging Grafana for powerful data visualizations. You will gain hands-on experience working with Grafana in a real-world DevOps context. The course emphasizes a practical approach, where you’ll install and configure Grafana, explore its interface, and create dynamic dashboards to monitor various data sources, including CSV, GitHub, Amazon CloudWatch, and more. The course covers in-depth features of Grafana like advanced visualization techniques, integrating with Prometheus for monitoring, and log aggregation with Grafana Loki. You will also learn how to use Grafana’s powerful alerting features and work with databases such as MySQL. From beginner-level installation to advanced features like Kubernetes integration, you’ll be guided through the key tools that make Grafana a top choice for observability. This course is ideal for IT professionals, DevOps engineers, and anyone interested in learning how to implement observability with Grafana. No prior experience with Grafana is required, but familiarity with basic IT concepts will be beneficial. By the end of the course, you will be able to install and configure Grafana, build dynamic dashboards, integrate multiple data sources, set up alerts, and monitor systems like Kubernetes, Prometheus, and MySQL using Grafana.