Integrate Grafana and Tiger Cloud

Grafana enables you to query, visualize, alert on, and explore your metrics, logs, and traces wherever they’re stored. Integrate Grafana with Tiger Cloud

Grafana enables you to query, visualize, alert on, and explore your metrics, logs, and traces wherever they’re stored.

This page shows you how to integrate Grafana with a , create a dashboard and panel, then visualize geospatial data.

Prerequisites

To follow the steps on this page:

• Create a target with time-series and analytics enabled.

  You need your connection details. This procedure also works for .

• Install self-managed Grafana or sign up for Grafana Cloud.

Connect Grafana to Tiger Cloud

To visualize the results of your queries, enable Grafana to read the data in your :

Create a Grafana dashboard and panel

Grafana is organized into dashboards and panels. A dashboard represents a view into the performance of a system, and each dashboard consists of one or more panels, which represent information about a specific metric related to that system.

To create a new dashboard:

Use the time filter function

Grafana time-series panels include a time filter:

Visualize geospatial data

Grafana includes a Geomap panel so you can see geospatial data overlaid on a map. This can be helpful to understand how data changes based on its location.

This section visualizes taxi rides in Manhattan, where the distance traveled was greater than 5 miles. It uses the same query as the NYC Taxi Cab tutorial as a starting point.