[mixmastamyk]

I've used grafana from a browser at a company once, and liked it a lot. However, when I've looked at installing it myself, the docs immediately start talking about other projects, like influxdb and elasticsearch, things I know little about nor want to. Conversely, the things I do want to know about, what is it written in, architecture, how to send data?, etc, are missing or buried somewhere.

Is there an easy tutorial on how to start sending it data after install? That's all I want. Also, would like to use standard tools like curl, python, and postgres, is that possible?

[pstuart]

Technically speaking, you don't send data to Grafana -- it polls a data source (like influxdb, elasticsearch and graphite).

[mixmastamyk]

Ok, that's good information I've never realized, perhaps part of the problem. Or the docs' problem.