Amazon Managed Grafana Specialized2020年〜
A managed Grafana service for visualizing AWS data sources and building dashboards
What It Does
Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for the open-source Grafana platform. It connects to over 30 data sources including CloudWatch, Prometheus, X-Ray, Timestream, Athena, and Redshift, letting you build dashboards that provide unified visualization of metrics, logs, and traces.
Use Cases
Used for building infrastructure and application monitoring dashboards, visualizing IoT device metrics, displaying business KPIs in real time, and creating integrated dashboards across multiple data sources.
Everyday Analogy
Think of it like a customizable instrument panel. Just like a car dashboard, you can freely arrange gauges like a speedometer (CPU usage), fuel gauge (storage), and tachometer (request count) to see your system's status at a glance.
What Is Managed Grafana?
Amazon Managed Grafana is a managed service that eliminates the need to build and operate Grafana servers. Grafana is an open-source visualization platform that can display data from diverse data sources on beautiful dashboards. Managed Grafana handles Grafana version upgrades, patching, and high availability.
Data Sources and Alerts
Connections to AWS data sources (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Timestream, X-Ray) are securely configured using IAM role-based authentication. Grafana's alerting feature lets you send notifications to SNS, Slack, PagerDuty, and more when metrics exceed thresholds. Grafana's plugin ecosystem is also available, allowing you to add custom panels and data sources. To gain a deeper understanding of data sources and alerts, technical books on Amazon are also worth checking out.
Getting Started
Create a workspace in the Managed Grafana console and select an authentication method (IAM Identity Center or SAML). Add data sources and create dashboards. You can also import pre-built AWS dashboards from Grafana's extensive template library.
Things to Watch Out For
- Pricing differs between editor and viewer users. Viewers cost $5/month and editors cost $9/month
- Choosing between CloudWatch dashboards: use CloudWatch for simple AWS metrics monitoring, and Managed Grafana for unified visualization across multiple data sources
