3.1.3 "Exploring" Your New Aggregate Data

What

WeBefore don'tyou havebuild a formal Grafana panel, it often helps to jump right in to creating a proper reporting panel for our new data.  Many times simply lookinglook at the aggregated data itselfdirectly. canThe beExplore helpful.view is the fastest way to sanity-check what your report is producing.

When/Why

ItUse isExplore bestafter you have configured the Prometheus scrape and want to alwaysconfirm takethe metric looks right before turning it into a look at your resultant data just to give it a sanity check before you start doing formal reporting.  The easiest way to do this is simply to use the "Explore" function within Grafana.panel.

How

TheAggregated inventory-query data weis previously aggregated from Prometheus will always be presentedexposed in theDashboard formmetrics ofas filewave_inventory_query_id,filewave_inventory_query_<id>, where <id> is the idreport ID you used. The attached video shows the Explore workflow for one of thethose report you based the data upon.  You'll see below how we can explore that data:metrics.

NoticeIn thatthis example, the data areis no longer 5shown individualas records,five butseparate nowrecords. 3Instead, records,it has been grouped into three records because weonly have 3three different versions of the FileWave client betweenversions theseare present across the endpoints.  That datagrouped result is perfectmuch for useasier to createuse ourwhen veryyou ownbuild a chart, such as a pie chart.chart, in the next step.