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Local Grafana Setup
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Influxdb
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Installing
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uses ports 8086

`download instructions`_ 

.. _download instructions: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.7/introduction/installation/

.. code-block:: bash

    brew install influxdb

Getting Started
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Start the service and open the influx shell

.. code-block:: bash

    $service influxdb start
    $influx
    >

Using sample data:

`instructions`_ 

.. _instructions: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.7/query_language/data_download/


Grafana Local
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`Official Grafana Docs`_ 

.. _Official Grafana Docs: http://docs.grafana.org/

`Download Grafana`_ 

.. _Download Grafana: http://docs.grafana.org/installation/mac/

Getting Started
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.. code-block:: bash

    brew services start grafana

to check which services are running use:

.. code-block:: bash

    brew services list

Adding plugins
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.. code-block:: bash

    grafana-cli plugins install grafana-piechart-panel


Fun Settings in Grafana
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* setting the "relative time" changes the time range for that single graph
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