This is part of a series of posts about running Grafana on Azure. Checkout the others Part 1 - Hosting/ConfigurationPart 2 - Azure MySQL StoragePart 3 - Enabling SSL with LetsEncrypt (this post)Part 4 - Azure AD LoginPart 5 - Azure Monitor Datasource (coming soon) What is LetsEncrypt? LetsEncrypt.org is an initiative to promote sites... Continue Reading →
This makes it great for our database for Grafana as the point of a monitoring system is be always up, and you don't want to be monitoring your monitoring system with your monitoring system.
There as a balancing act to be done here. Speed and simplicity could be achieved using a database on the machine, that's then backed up, at the expense of management overhead. Reduced Management could be achieved using ACI or App Service, at the expense of cost (unless you already have a container infrastructure). The solution here, I believe, gives a fair balance
