Content

• Content
• Introduction
• Accessing Grafana
• Users, Projects, Organizations and Roles

Introduction

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and visualizing time-series data from sources like Prometheus, Loki, Databases etc. It allows users to create interactive dashboards and alerts to track system performance and trends in real time.

Vendor Page

There is good documentation to start using Grafana:

Grafana Documentation

Grafana Tutorials

Accessing Grafana

Grafana as part of the DevOps-as-a-Service toolchain can be accessed by either

• DevOps Portal Homepage --> Grafana Tile
    
• or directly use the URL https://grafana-<customer>.devops.t-systems.net

A Grafana license must be assigned to the user in the DevOps portal to see the Grafana tile resp. to get access to Grafana.

If you are not already logged in to another tool in the toolchain, then you have to login using your configured SSO credentials.

If you see this message after entering your credentials, then you don't have a Grafana license assigned in the DevOps portal:

Users, Projects, Organizations and Roles

• Projects, users and their roles in projects are managed in the DevOps portal, the corresponding functions in Grafana are disabled.
• Projects in DevOps portal are mapped to Organizations in Grafana. This means, when there is a new project in the portal having Grafana as a configured tool, then there is a new Grafana "Org". Users assigned to a project in the portal are then assigned to a Grafana Org applying the configured roles.
  • Role mapping: 

    Project Role in DevOps Portal	Grafana Organization Role	Permissions in Grafana
    Viewer	Viewer
    Developer / Master	Editor
    Admin	Admin

    Link to Grafana Role model: 

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