Getting Started with Grafana and TimescaleDB

Grafana is an open source analytics and monitoring solution often used to visualize time-series data. In these tutorials, you’ll learn how to:

• Setup Grafana and TimescaleDB
• Use Grafana to visualize metrics stored in TimescaleDB
• Visualize geospatial data using Grafana

Follow these tutorials:

• Creating a Grafana dashboard and panel to visualize data in TimescaleDB.
• Visualize Geospatial data in Grafana.
• Use Grafana variables to filter and customize your visualizations.
• Visualize missing data in Grafana using TimescaleDB features.
• Setup Grafana alerts on time-series data using Slack, PagerDuty, and more.

Pre-requisites for Grafana tutorials

To complete these tutorials, you will need a cursory knowledge of the Structured Query Language (SQL). Each tutorial will walk you through each SQL command, but it will be helpful if you’ve seen SQL before.

• To start, install TimescaleDB.
• Next setup Grafana.