What is Amazon Managed Grafana?

• A data visualization service for querying, correlating, and visualizing operational metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources.

• Create dashboards and visualizations to analyze metrics, logs, and traces without having to build, package, or deploy Grafana servers.

• All logical Grafana server deployment, setup, scaling, and maintenance are handled by AWS.

• Integrated with the following AWS data sources:

  • Amazon CloudWatch

  • Amazon OpenSearch Service

  • AWS X-Ray

  • Amazon Timestream

  • Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

Amazon Managed Grafana Components

• Workspaces

  • A logically isolated Grafana server.

  • User authentication method for workspaces is through:

    • SAML 2.0

    • AWS IAM Identity Center

  • Each Region can have up to five workspaces.

  • Supports Grafana HTTP APIs

  • You can create permissions and policies to manage the workspace’s data sources and notification channels.

  • When you delete a workspace, the following items are also removed:

    • Dashboards

    • Data source configuration

    • Alerts

    • Snapshots

• A user may only have one of three roles: Admin, Editor, or Viewer.

• Teams

  • Allows you to grant permissions to a group of users.

  • Using team sync, you can automatically synchronize team membership between Grafana workspace and authorization provider.

• A user can be associated with the following permission:

  • Grafana admin

  • Membership in a team

  • Specific folder or dashboard

  • Data source

• Data sources

  • You can combine data from various data sources into a single dashboard.

  • TestDB – a built-in data source to generate random walk data for testing and experiments.

  • Mixed – allow you to query multiple data sources in the same panel.

  • Dashboard – useful for a result set from another panel in the same dashboard.

  • Supports built-in or Grafana Enterprise data sources.

• Panel

  •  A visual representation of one or more queries.

  • Each panel contains a query editor that can be used to extract a visualization to display on the panel.

    • Recorded queries enable you to take a snapshot of a data point on a set interval.

  • Transformations allow you to rename fields, join separate time series together, and perform math across queries.

  • A field represents a single time series or table column.

    • Field options – allow you to change the way data is displayed in your visualizations, and changes are applied to all fields.

    • Field overrides – apply only to specific fields.

  • Create reusable panels using library panels.

• Dashboard

  • Consists of one or more panels and is arranged into one or more rows.

  • Annotations are used to display event data across multiple panels.

  • To organize and group your dashboards, use folders.

  • A playlist is a collection of dashboards that are displayed in a specific order.

  • A dashboard snapshot allows you to quickly share an interactive dashboard publicly.

• Explore removes dashboard and panel options so that you can concentrate on performing queries to view your data.

• Links lets you create shortcuts to the dashboard, panel, and data.

• Alert rules and notification channel helps you identify problems in your system moments after they occur

Amazon Managed Grafana Security

• Centrally manage data source configuration and permission settings for multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organization

• You can configure organizational units to make their AWS data sources visible in the primary account.

• Uses CloudFormation StackSets to automatically create IAM roles for connecting to data sources.

• You need to create an API key for authorization in order to use Grafana APIs in the Amazon Managed Grafana workspace.

Amazon Managed Grafana Pricing

• You are charged based on the active user license per workspace.

• You are charged per active editor or administrator user per workspace in the Grafana Editor license.

• You are charged per active user per workspace in the Grafana Viewer license.

• You are charged per active API user in the Grafana API user license.

Amazon Managed Grafana Cheat Sheet Reference:

https://aws.amazon.com/grafana/