OK.
Hello, and welcome to my course on Safana.
Now data can come from many different places even more than you can imagine.
Mega-fauna provides a way for you to visualize that data through graphs and some level of reporting
and alerting.
So we need to install Bafana.
And I'll show you how to do that.
Now, Bafana doesn't exist by itself.
It needs to extract data from all kinds of data sources.
There are thousands of them, and I'll provide you instructions on some of the most popular.
For example, my skill Loki, Prometheus, Influx TV, Xbox, ElasticSearch, and we'll use those data
sources to retrieve the data in a time series format from the various services that they are written
to query.
For example, my squirrel data can be returned in all the time series or tabular.
Loki Pronto can work together to read log files from a server.
Prometheus has many kinds of exporters for all kinds of other services in flux to be very similar with
Xbox and ElasticSearch, so I will experiment with all kinds of data sources which are all conceptually
different from each other so that you have a very good overview of how you might approach collecting
data from the thousands of other available data sources out there.
OK, but anyway, at the beginning, we'll look at the test data source, which means we won't need
to install anything extra other than initial groups on a server install, and we can start experimenting
with the user interface and the different kinds of visualizations available for us.
The default install now predominantly through the course, I'll be using Ubuntu Altius servers because
it's very easy for beginners to understand and provide all the commands in my accompanying website.
So, for example, in the resources alongside each video, there will be links pointing to various pages
in my documentation.
For example, install prompts tell binary install as a service for the commands are written there so
that you can just copy and paste into your server.
So that you can get right on with it without much delay.
OK, so during the course, I recommend copying what I do by using the same versions of the software,
the same operating systems each time so that you consider working for yourself.
Once you have a familiarity with Safana and all the various data sources available to you, you will
then be able to apply your knowledge to your more bespoke situations.
So remember, Kafala is a tool to help you visualize data from other systems.
It doesn't exist by itself, but you need to develop that skill in order to reverse engineer other systems,
no matter what they are, and understand how to get data from that system into the fire so that you
can visualize it.
Gravano, create alerts or do further analysis.
So hopefully at the end of the course, you will have developed those skills.
OK, so thanks for taking part of my course, and let's get started.