Grafana Books for Beginners
2Monitoring with Prometheus
James Turnbull · 394 pages · ~10 hrs to read
Short and dense — the metrics data model, service discovery, and alerting concepts that Grafana visualises without teaching you itself. Pairs well with the Grafana Fundamentals tutorial for engineers who want the underlying Prometheus theory in book form.
Practical Monitoring
Mike Julian · O'Reilly · 169 pages · ~4 hrs to read
Vendor-neutral monitoring principles that apply whether your dashboards sit on top of Prometheus, InfluxDB, or CloudWatch. Read this to design dashboards that answer real operational questions instead of just looking impressive in a Grafana screenshot.
Intermediate & Advanced Grafana Books
3Prometheus: Up & Running
Julien Pivotto & Brian Brazil · O'Reilly · 418 pages · ~10 hrs to read
Grafana is only as powerful as the metrics it visualises. This book, co-authored by Julien Pivotto and Brian Brazil, covers the Prometheus metrics data model, PromQL, instrumentation, and Alertmanager.
End-to-End Observability with Grafana
Ajay Reddy Yeruva & Vivek Basavegowda Ramu · BPB Publications
Covers the Grafana interface and dashboards, data sources, Loki for logs, authentication, Kubernetes monitoring, AIOps monitoring and plugins, plus performance-testing dashboards. Aimed at SRE, platform and performance-testing engineers.
Observability Engineering
Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George Miranda · O'Reilly · 631 pages · ~16 hrs to read
The conceptual case for high-cardinality structured events and distributed tracing over pre-aggregated metrics dashboards — required reading before building out the Loki/Tempo side of an LGTM stack, not just the Grafana panels.
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