\u2705Step One – Setting up your Grafana Instance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
To get started, go to Grafana, create a Grafana Cloud Account (Free Tier), and click launch on your free Grafana cloud stack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2705Step Two – Creating a database and connecting 3CX to Grafana<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
You can then follow 3CX\u2019s guide on setting up a PostgreSQL database in the format 3CX needs and connecting the database to 3CX as a Data Connector so 3CX can write data to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Standalone PostgreSQL & Grafana Configuration Guide | 3CX<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to use AWS, you can set up an AWS RDS PostgreSQL database using this guide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n AWS RDS PostgreSQL Configuration Guide | 3CX<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to use Google, you can set up a Google BigQuery database using this guide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Google BigQuery Configuration Guide | 3CX<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you have set up 3CX with Grafana you can import 3CX\u2019s dashboards to use their pre-made templates. You can download the PostgreSQL templates from here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n PostgreSQL Templates<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n You can download the Google BigQuery templates from here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Google BigQuery Templates<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you have your packages, you can unzip them, and drag and drop them into the Dashboard creation screen, which is found in Grafana by going to the Dashboards page and clicking New > New Dashboard in the top right, then select Import Dashboard Once imported, you should be able to select a data source from the Grafana data source dropdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click import, and you\u2019re done! There should be 10 templates to choose from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2705Step One – Setting up your Grafana Instance To get started, go to Grafana, create a Grafana Cloud Account (Free Tier), and click launch on your free Grafana cloud stack. \u2705Step Two – Creating a database and connecting 3CX to Grafana You can then follow 3CX\u2019s guide on setting up a PostgreSQL database in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowgrid.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowgrid.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowgrid.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowgrid.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowgrid.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10448"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowgrid.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10471,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowgrid.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448\/revisions\/10471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowgrid.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowgrid.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowgrid.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowgrid.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\n\n\n\u2705 Step Three – Creating a Grafana Dashboard<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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