How to organize for client-sites?

  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
  • Ubuntu
  • Grafana 11.2.1
  • InfluxDB 1.8
  • What are you trying to achieve?
  • I want to grab simple metrics for a couple of devices spread over 20-30 clients.
    I’d like to get some input on the best way to organize the clients and their equpiment, in other solutions I guess it’d be called “groups” - is there something similar for influx/grafana?
    So:
    “Company A:
    Server
    Switch
    Company B:
    Server
    Switch”

Since a lot of the servers have the same name (dc01 or whatnot) it’s difficult to distinguish them in the list of hosts from influx.

As far as I know, Organizations are isolated and could work, but would I be able to create a main dashboard for all orgs? Are “Folders” what I’m looking for?

Is perhaps Zabbix/check_mk a better solution for what I’m trying to achieve?

It depends+ it is opinionated question, so there isn’t the best way.

IMHO: Single dashboard with dashboard variables, e. g. organization, device, metric is the best (for lazy Grafana admins).