Amazon Managed Grafana - Getting Started

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In this course, you will learn the benefits and technical concepts of Amazon Managed Grafana, a fully managed service based on open-source Grafana. With Amazon Managed Grafana, you can analyze your metrics, logs, and traces without having to provision servers, or configure and update software. You can also avoid the heavy lifting involved in securing and scaling Grafana in production.

In addition, you will review the basics of Amazon Managed Grafana and explore the business and technical challenges it can help you solve.

      •    Course level: Fundamental

      •    Duration: 1 hour

Activities

This course includes presentations, demonstrations, and knowledge checks.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

      •    Understand the basic technical concepts of Amazon Managed Grafana.

      •    Understand both the business and technical challenges that Amazon Managed Grafana can address.

      •    Create a workspace, log in to the workspace, and visualize metrics.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

      •    Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers, partners, and internal resources who want to better understand how Amazon Managed Grafana can help them operate AWS solutions at scale

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

      •    A basic understanding of AWS offerings and the challenges that organizations face when operating

      •    Completed the Getting Started with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus course

Course outline

Introduction

      •    Introduction to Amazon Managed Grafana

      •    Architecture and Use Cases

Using Amazon Managed Grafana

      •    How Do I Create an Amazon Managed Grafana Workspace?

      •    How Do I Operate in the Amazon Managed Grafana Workspace?

      •    How Do I Query and Analyze Metrics from Amazon Managed Grafana?

      •    How Do I Clean Up Workspace Resources?

Resources