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Data Visualization, Querying, Alerting & Automation in Grafana for SREs, DevOps & Cloud Teams

  In the world of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, and Cloud Operations , monitoring and observability are not optional—they are critical to ensuring uptime, performance, and customer satisfaction. Among the many tools available, Grafana stands out as one of the most powerful platforms for data visualization, querying, alerting, and automation. This guide will show how SREs, DevOps engineers, and cloud teams can leverage Grafana in 2025 to streamline operations, respond faster to incidents, and automate workflows. 🚀 Why Grafana? Open-source and flexible – integrates with 100+ data sources (Prometheus, Loki, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, etc.). Unified observability – one dashboard for metrics, logs, and traces. AI & automation support – Grafana Labs is investing heavily in AI-powered insights. Enterprise-ready – secure, scalable, and used by global organizations. 📊 1. Data Visualization in Grafana Visualization is at ...

Terraform on AWS for Absolute Beginners: Learn Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Automation, and AWS Essentials

  In the cloud-first era, managing infrastructure manually is no longer scalable or secure. If you're starting your journey into cloud computing, learning Terraform on AWS is one of the most valuable and future-proof skills you can acquire. It's the gateway to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) , cloud automation, and seamless DevOps workflows. This beginner-friendly guide will introduce you to Terraform + AWS —how they work together, why they matter, and how you can start building cloud infrastructure automatically, efficiently, and safely . 🌐 What is Terraform? Terraform is an open-source tool by HashiCorp that allows you to define and provision cloud infrastructure using code instead of manual clicks. Instead of navigating through the AWS Console to spin up servers, databases, or networks, Terraform lets you declare them in configuration files and manage them programmatically. “Infrastructure as Code (IaC)” means your infrastructure is versioned, testable, repeatable, a...