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Grafana and Oracle database - Part 1 - Introduction

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As you may very well know, Grafana is an open source dash-boarding tool that displays graphs and dashboards that are light-weight and elegant and way more cooler as compared to Enterprise Manager (OEM) . For the uninitiated, here's a comparison of the dashboards in OEM vs Grafana. OEM Dashboards: Grafana Dashboard: For Server Performance: For Database Metrics: However, how does one make use of Grafana instead of OEM? A short, quick and concise guide to doing it is here . Basically, it utilises the power of the Telegraf agent (an open source monitoring agent) and to some extent, InfluxDB (a time series database wherein data is always stored along with time. This is how the data flows:          Next (Part 2A: Influx DB Installation) >