November 25, 2019

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Grafana is Not Enough: DIY User Interfaces for Prometheus [I]

Grafana is Not Enough: DIY User Interfaces for Prometheus [I]

This talk gives a quick overview of the currently available Prometheus UIs and shows ways to build your own interfaces to enable your workflows. Most popular among the UIs is Grafana, which works well …

Talk Title Grafana is Not Enough: DIY User Interfaces for Prometheus [I]
Speakers David Kaltschmidt (Director of Engineering, Weaveworks)
Conference CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe
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Location Berlin Congress Center
Date Mar 28-30, 2017
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This talk gives a quick overview of the currently available Prometheus UIs and shows ways to build your own interfaces to enable your workflows. Most popular among the UIs is Grafana, which works well with Prometheus and is lovely for dashboarding, but terrible for troubleshooting. What do you do if you want to slightly modify queries based on your dashboards? How can you explore the keys and values of your metric labels quickly? Having trouble remembering PromQL syntax? This talk presents small building UI blocks to get to your results faster and save the day.

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