Many times, when I am debugging an environment, I find myself opening a lot of web browser tabs and windows to get metrics and see graphs from a number of data sources. It is a tiresome and prone to error way to go as each metric can be presented in a different timezone, and there is no way to stack them together. Grafana is an excellent solution to this problem as it can aggregate and mix many data sources and present them in a rich way. In this post I will show how to aggregate and mix metrics from Zabbix and AWS CloudWatch. Installing Grafana We will install Grafana 2.5.0 on an Ubuntu 14.04 server. Full installation documentation can be found here . First, download and install the .deb package and its dependencies: 1 2 3 $ wget https://grafanarel.s3.amazonaws.com/builds/grafana_2.5.0_amd64.deb $ sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig $ sudo dpkg -i grafana_2.5.0_amd64.deb Now, start the service: 1 $ ...
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