Grafana 101 "Hello World" Basic simplest setup on my laptop for demo

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Trying to learn grefana by setting up simple basic 101 installed ORACLE DB (I AM A DBA) and also installed GREFANA on laptop and also setup grefana cloud but then stuck. not sure what to do to make grefana connect to my oracle db. I AM A BIT LOST, not sure what is OSS and cloud, and what to do next? I can pay for support if needed, need to learn
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  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using? enterprise but i can use any version just need to know which version to use, os windows

  • What are you trying to achieve? BASIC 101 HELLO WORLD

  • How are you trying to achieve it? FOLLOWED DOCUMENTS OR ONLINE STEPS

  • What happened? NOT SURE – CONNOT CONNECT FROM GREFANA CLOUD TO MY LAPTOP TIME OUT ERROR

  • What did you expect to happen? WORK - CONNECT TO MY LAPTOP ORACLE DB

  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with? HOW DO I COLLECT THE CONFIG DATA?

  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.

  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?

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Welcome @singhrk

How did you install grafana locally on your laptop?

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Here’s a suggestion: setting up an environment using Docker Compose (using Docker Desktop, Docker CE, WSL, Podman, etc.).

For testing on my laptop, including demonstrations, proof-of-concept projects, and even presentations, I usually use the Docker Compose script from this repository: GitHub - grafana/adventure: Demo for CNCF Presentation. · GitHub

It covers the most common aspects of the Grafana stack, including dashboard visualization, metrics with Prometheus, logs with Loki, and traces with Tempo, all collected via OpenTelemetry + Alloy. I haven’t yet had time to create a local example for Oracle, but I’ve used this example as a basis for tests using SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis.

Here’s an example where I used PostgreSQL: aspnetcore10-opentelemetry-grafana-tempo-loki-prometheus-postgres_contagemacessos/scripts-grafana at main · renatogroffe/aspnetcore10-opentelemetry-grafana-tempo-loki-prometheus-postgres_contagemacessos · GitHub

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