Infrastructure Monitoring Basics with Telegraf, Grafana, and InfluxDB

Session date: Feb 25, 2025 08:00am (Pacific Time)

Infrastructure Monitoring is a critical aspect of ensuring the reliability, performance, and availability of IT systems. This talk provides a comprehensive overview of the basics of infrastructure monitoring and introduces you to the popular open-source tools Telegraf, Grafana, and InfluxDB. InfluxDB is the purpose-built time series database. You will learn how to install, configure, and use these tools to monitor various aspects of your IT infrastructure, including system performance, resource utilization, and network traffic.

The talk also covers some best practices for creating effective and meaningful dashboards, setting up alerts, or integrating with other monitoring tools such as Prometheus. By the end of the session, you will have a solid understanding of how to get started with infrastructure monitoring and how to use Telegraf, Grafana, and InfluxDB to achieve your goals.

Anais Dotis-Georgiou

Developer Advocate, InfluxData

Anais Dotis-Georgiou is a Developer Advocate for InfluxData with a passion for making data beautiful with the use of Data Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning. She takes the data that she collects, does a mix of research, exploration, and engineering to translate the data into something of function, value, and beauty. When she is not behind a screen, you can find her outside drawing, stretching, boarding, or chasing after a soccer ball.