Getting Started with Your Grafana Breeze

Accessing Grafana

After your Grafana Breeze is provisioned, access the dashboard at:

http://YOUR_IP:3000

Default Credentials

Log in with the root password you set during deployment. The default Grafana admin username is admin.

Adding Your First Data Source

1. Go to Configuration → Data Sources
2. Click Add data source
3. Select your data source type (Prometheus, InfluxDB, MySQL, etc.)
4. Enter connection details and click Save & Test

Creating a Dashboard

1. Click + → New Dashboard
2. Click Add visualization
3. Select your data source
4. Build your query (Grafana provides a visual query builder)
5. Choose a visualization type (graph, gauge, table, etc.)
6. Click Apply and then Save

Useful Built-in Features

• Alerting — set up alerts when metrics cross thresholds
• Variables — create dynamic, reusable dashboards
• Annotations — mark events on graphs (deployments, incidents)
• Sharing — share dashboards via link, snapshot, or embed

Monitoring Your Breeze

Install the Node Exporter to monitor the Grafana server itself:

sudo apt install -y prometheus-node-exporter

Then add Prometheus as a data source pointing to http://localhost:9090 and import the "Node Exporter Full" dashboard (ID: 1860).