Workshop
Getting started with open dashboards and visualization
This workshop will guide you through the open source dashboards and visualization project Perses,
what it is, a basic installation, and building your first dashboard.
Prerequisites: [ Podman 4.x+ ] OR [ Go version 1.18+, NodeJS version 16+, npm version 8+ ]
Note: This workshop is based on Perses v0.21. It can be run standalone or as part of the Getting started with Prometheus workshop.
Note: This workshop is based on Perses v0.21. It can be run standalone or as part of the Getting started with Prometheus workshop.
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Building beautiful dashboards and visualizations
Lab 1 - Introduction to Perses
Lab goals: This lab introduces you to the Perses project and provides you with an
understanding of its role in the CoreDash community.
Lab 2 - Installing Perses
Lab goals: This lab walks you through the steps for installing Perses on your local machine.
Lab 3 - Exploring Perses tooling
Lab goals: This lab explores the Perses API and how to use the Perses command line tooling to gain
insights into the current available projects, dashboards, and data sources.
Lab 4 - Exploring Perses dashboards
Lab goals: This lab ensures your understanding of what the basic components are to building
dashboards with the Perses project.
Lab 5 - Building your first dashboard
Lab goals: This lab shows you now to construct your first basic dashboard from scratch using
the Perses project.
Lab 6 - Building advanced dashboard
Lab goals: This lab shows you how to build out your first basic dashboard, extending it with
more components until you have an advanced dashboard with better metrics coverage.
Lab 7 - Building advanced++ dashboards
Lab goals: This lab shows you how to build extend your advanced dashboard, sprucing it up
with a few more important components until you have an advanced++ dashboard you can be
proud of.
The End
This completes the standalone workshop. If completing as part of the Getting started
with Prometheus workshop, then continue to the next part of that workshop by going to the
next section lab.
Thanks for your time and feedback is always welcome!
Thanks for your time and feedback is always welcome!
Eric D. Schabell
Director Evangelism
Contact: @ericschabell {@fosstodon.org}
or https://www.schabell.org
Director Evangelism
Contact: @ericschabell {@fosstodon.org}
or https://www.schabell.org