Observability with Grafana – From Data to Dashboards

Grafana is an open-source visualization and monitoring platform that transforms raw data from various sources into clean, interactive dashboards.

What’s in this course?

Grafana has grown from a simple dashboarding tool into the visual heartbeat of modern observability. This course is your hands-on journey into mastering Grafana, layer by layer, demo by demo.

Instead of abstract concepts, you’ll learn Grafana the practical way: by building dashboards, connecting data sources, visualizing metrics, parsing logs, setting alerts, and integrating real systems like Prometheus, CloudWatch, GitHub, MySQL, and Kubernetes.

Each concept is connected to a real demonstration. No edited timelines. No perfect runs. You’ll see what a real engineer sees, including troubleshooting, fixes, and decision-making in action.

Special Note

By the end, you won’t just “use” Grafana, you’ll understand it, shape it, and integrate it confidently into real-world workflows.

Course Structure:

• Concept-based lectures
• Hands-on demonstrations

Course Contents:

• Introduction to Grafana
• Installing and Setting Up Grafana
• Grafana Architecture & System Components
• Exploring the Grafana Interface
• Working with CSV Data in Grafana
• Grafana with GitHub
• Integrating Grafana with Amazon CloudWatch
• Grafana and Prometheus
• Grafana Loki – Log Aggregation
• Grafana Alloy and Logging Pipeline
• Nginx Logging
• Grafana Alerting
• Grafana with Databases
• Grafana Access Control
• K8s Integration with Grafana and Prometheus

All sections of this course are demonstrated live, with the goal of encouraging enrolled users to set up their own environments, complete the exercises, and learn through hands-on experience!