You're reading from Building IoT Visualizations using Grafana Power up your IoT projects and monitor with Prometheus, LibreNMS, and Elasticsearch

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803236124

Length 360 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Elasticsearch

Concepts

IoT Development

Author (1):

Rodrigo Juan Hernandez

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Meeting Grafana

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Grafana FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Grafana

4. Part 2: Collecting Data from IoT Devices

5. Chapter 3: Connecting IoT Devices

6. Chapter 4: Data Sources for Grafana

7. Chapter 5: Using Time Series Databases

8. Part 3: Connecting Data Sources and Building Dashboards

9. Chapter 6: Getting Data and Building Dashboards

10. Chapter 7: Managing Plugins

11. Chapter 8: Organizing and Managing Dashboards

12. Part 4: Performing Analytics and Notifications

13. Chapter 9: Performing Analytics in Grafana

14. Chapter 10: Alerting and Notifications in Grafana

15. Part 5: Integrating Grafana with Other Platforms

16. Chapter 11: Using Grafana with Prometheus

17. Chapter 12: Using Grafana with OpenSearch

18. Chapter 13: Showing Data from LibreNMS in Grafana

19. Chapter 14: Integrations for Grafana Cloud

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What OpenSearch is and what it is used for

OpenSearch is a fork from the Elasticsearch project. It happened after Elasticsearch became a non-open source project, early in 2021. The first version of OpenSearch appeared in the middle of the year 2021.

The major difference between the two projects is the advanced analytics capabilities, which are available for free in the OpenSearch version, whereas you have to pay for their use in ElasticSearch.

The OpenSearch system allows searching and analyzing data from several sources. You can build visualizations, run alarms, and create analytics. With OpenSearch, you can also implement anomaly detection and data classification.

In other words, OpenSearch offers very powerful tools for analyzing data. In this chapter, you will learn how to ingest data into OpenSearch, perform analytics on it, and show it in Grafana dashboards.

You can use OpenSearch for many things, such as the following: