From the course: Graphite and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
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Interpreting graphs
From the course: Graphite and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
Interpreting graphs
- [Narrator] In this video, we'll discuss a few general guidelines for interpreting metric and graph data. This will prepare us to walk through some real world examples of Grafana Dashboards. When thinking about a framework to use when approaching the interpretation of graphs and other visualizations, we first and foremost want to consider the context around the data displayed in a visualization. Just as important, we want to consider exactly what system we are graphing. For example, we might ask questions like, is it a web server, a database? What makes this system unique, and what work, in general, do we expect it to perform? Last, there are a few ways we can set up our Grafana Dashboards to make them easier to consume and understand. When I say that we should consider the context around our data, what I mean is any information about how our system behaves that we know before we begin to look at any graphs. An example of this information is periodicity, or any known recurring…
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