Grafana, an open-source tool for visualizing data in a way that’s both easy to understand and actionable, is now accessible as a fully managed service on Amazon Web Services (Amazon Managed Grafana). With Amazon Managed Grafana, you can see metrics, logs, and traces from all around your IT portfolio, as well as AWS and third-party ISVs, and set alarms based on what you find. Automatic database and compute infrastructure scalability in response to rising usage demands, as well as version and security patching automation, are all features of Amazon Managed Grafana that relieve administrators of Grafana’s operational management. Both AWS services and third-party plugins are readily available for integration with Amazon Managed Grafana. A few clicks in the AWS Management Console are all it takes to safely add, query, view, and analyze data across various AWS accounts and Regions. Easy permissions management for individual users in your company directory is now possible with Amazon Managed Grafana’s integration with AWS IAM Identity Center, the successor to AWS SSO, and support for Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0.
IOT Telemetry?
Telemetry refers to systems that can measure and gather data from faraway places and send it to other systems for further analysis. Conventional telemetry applications include:
- Spacecraft monitoring data
- Detectors for animals
- Vehicle sensors that measure things like speed, engine temperature, fuel level, and more
- Electronic heart-gauge monitors
- Bracelets for convicted felons
- Fitness trackers worn by the wearer, such the Fitbit
The capacity to obtain data from distant places is made possible by telemetry. These areas typically have limited access to physical networks and power, and they are also difficult or costly to reach.
The Internet of Things
Markets are undergoing a dramatic shift due to the proliferation of IoT. Connected devices and telemetry, or remote management and monitoring, are two of the most prominent use cases for the Internet of Things. Technologies such as these are coming together to fuel the expansion of the Internet of Things market:
- Powering the Internet of Things (IoT) and network connectivity for ten years or more without charging
- Decreasing the size of hardware and incorporating embedded systems that can handle complicated tasks
- Evaluation of data using AI and ML
- Connectivity between machines, or machine-to-machine (M2M) capabilities, enable Internet of Things (IoT) devices to exchange data with one another and conduct analytics locally
Technologies at the cutting edge of the cloud that can collect data in near real-time from thousands to millions of devices, aggregate it, and then upload it for analysis
Supporting a vast array of low-power devices are wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, 5G cellular, Bluetooth, Li-Fi, and the soon-to-be-established LAN and WAN.
Features of AWS Managed Grafana
Visualize and associate data from many sources
Your metrics, logs, and traces can be visualized, analyzed, and correlated in a single dashboard using Amazon Managed Grafana. By securely and natively integrating with AWS services like Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana makes it easy to query AWS data across various accounts and Regions in a single UI. You can monitor the health and performance of your containerized applications using a dashboard that combines container data from Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, AWS services metrics from Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon OpenSearch Service logs. The same dashboard lets you layer and display data from Graphite and third-party ISVs like Datadog and Splunk.
Alerts help spot concerns fast.
Quickly recognizing unwanted system modifications reduces service disruptions. Set alerts to detect system issues immediately using Amazon Managed Grafana. You choose the alert rule, how often it should be assessed, the alert trigger conditions, and how to deliver the alert notification. Prometheus Alertmanager data sources and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus alerts can be viewed and managed in Amazon Managed Grafana.
Utilize Grafana community plugins.
Amazon Managed Grafana lets you install community plugins to connect to Apache Cassandra, Sentry, Flowcharting, Polystat, and other data sources. Your Amazon Managed Grafana workspace’s Plugin Catalog lets you find, install, and update plugins.
Use Enterprise plugins.
You may enable Amazon Managed Grafana Enterprise plugins in your workspace from the console or AWS SDK and CLI to view data from third-party ISVs including Splunk, DataDog, Dynatrace, Atlassian Jira, Datadog, New Relic, Snowflake, and more. This enables a unified observability perspective by viewing data from Enterprise data sources or third-party ISVs alongside Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and Jaeger.
Teamwork
Sharing dashboards is easy with authentication from users and authorization.
You may quickly share dynamic dashboards with particular users or teams in Amazon Managed Grafana. Use your corporate directory services to enable user access and authentication to Grafana workspaces with AWS Identity Center for IAM (successor to AWS SSO) and SAML 2.0 integration with Identity Providers. Users can have Read/Write or Read-Only responsibilities as Administrators, Editors, or Viewers. Teams can limit dashboard and data source access to authorized individuals. Microsoft Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Okta, Ping Identity, OneLogin, and CyberArk interact with Amazon Managed Grafana. With Amazon Managed Grafana Team Sync, you can connect directory service group memberships with Grafana teams by tracking all synced users in teams.
Protecting and authenticating
AWS Managed Grafana interfaces with many services to fulfill corporate security and compliance needs. Amazon Managed Grafana uses SAML 2.0 to authenticate users using AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO) or your existing Identity Provider. This allows AWS and your corporate user directories to reuse trust connections. For safety and audit tracking, AWS CloudTrail audit logs may track Grafana workspace modifications. To avoid manually managing IAM credentials and permissions for each data source, Amazon Managed Grafana natively integrates with Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, AWS IoT SiteWise, Amazon Timestream, and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. Amazon Managed Grafana detects your account’s resources across Regions and Organizational Units and automatically establishes the proper IAM policies for accessing your data. Without public IPs or Internet traffic, Amazon Managed Grafana can connect to data sources in your Amazon VPC. Data sources like OpenSearch, Amazon RDS databases, and self-managed Prometheus rarely have public endpoints. Connect your Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces to your VPC to query, view, and alert on VPC data sources. Use VPC Peering and Transit Gateways to link Grafana workspaces to various VPCs. So, you can visualize data from both privately-hosted and publicly-facing sources in one Amazon Managed Grafana workspace.
You can restrict inbound network traffic to your Amazon Managed Grafana workstations by creating customer-managed prefixes lists and VPC endpoints. The network access user guide has more information. Connect Amazon VPC and Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces with AWS PrivateLink. An Amazon VPC IAM resource policy controls access to Amazon Managed Grafana from VPC endpoints. Amazon Managed Grafana accommodates two VPC endpoint types. You can use Amazon Managed Grafana APIs for handling workspaces. Alternatively, construct a workspace-specific VPC endpoint.
No servers to administer
The Amazon Managed Grafana console lets you create one or more workspaces to display and analyze metrics, logs, and traces without building, packaging, or deploying hardware or infrastructure with a few clicks. Amazon Managed Grafana automatically provides, configures, and manages your Grafana workspaces, updating them with the latest features. Automatically scales to match your changing needs.
Highly accessible and safe
Auto-recovery, patching
Multi-AZ replication makes Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces highly available. Amazon Managed Grafana monitors and replaces unhealthy nodes in your Grafana workspaces without affecting access. To avoid starting, stopping, or rebooting infrastructure resources, Amazon Managed Grafana manages compute and database node availability.
Security and encryption
Data at rest is encrypted by Amazon Managed Grafana without configuration, third-party tools, or cost. Amazon Managed Grafana uses TLS for in-transit encryption.
Use cases
Elevate your visibility
View and analyze metrics, logs, and traces from several tools in a single display or dashboard after querying and correlating them.
Keep an eye on storage units
Watch the metrics of containers running on AWS, on-premises, or in other clouds, as well as those running on self-managed Kubernetes and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS).
Work together to resolve operational problems
In addition to viewing and editing dashboards in real time, teams can also share dashboards with stakeholders and keep track of version changes.
Kept an eye on Internet of Things gadgets
Grafana is a popular choice for monitoring data from IoT and edge devices because of its rich graphing features and extendable data plugin architecture.
Getting started
Customers can quickly query, relate, and visualize application performance metrics, logs, and trails from various data sources with Amazon Managed Grafana, a secure and completely managed data visualization service. Grafana, an open-source data visualization tool with a reputation for supporting a wide variety of extensible data sources, is the foundation of Amazon Managed Grafana. Amazon Managed Grafana, a joint venture between Grafana Labs and Amazon, takes care of supplies, set up, growing, and maintenance for Grafana, so users don’t have to. Integrated security capabilities, such as single sign-on, extremely fine data access control, and audit reporting, help customers meet governance needs. For operational data collection, Amazon Managed Grafana integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS) products like CloudWatch, Elasticsearch Service, Timestream, AWS IoT SiteWise, AWS X-Ray, and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP). It also offers plug-ins for popular open-source databases, third-party ISV monitoring tools, and other cloud services. Amazon Managed Grafana makes it easy to integrate data visualization with numerous AWS accounts, services, and regions into a unified dashboard.
If you want access to more features and plugins for Grafana Enterprise, you can upgrade in-place. If you’re using AppDynamics, DataDog, Dynatrace, New Relic, MongoDB, Oracle Database, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Splunk, or Wavefront, Grafana Enterprise can help you consolidate your data. Grafana Labs also provides training and support materials that may be accessed immediately, making it easier to learn and use Grafana’s sophisticated features.
Conclusion
An effective platform for gaining insights from Internet of Things (IoT) telemetry data is provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) Managed Grafana to enterprises. Managed Grafana gives businesses the opportunity to get the most out of their investments in the Internet of Things (IoT) by integrating with AWS services in a smooth manner, delivering scalability and reliability, and providing wide-ranging customization choices. In the digital age, AWS Managed Grafana serves as the gateway to Internet of Things (IoT) telemetry insights, which drives innovation and unlocks new opportunities. This is true whether the goal is to optimize industrial processes, enhance city services, improve healthcare results, or optimize energy distribution.
