2. Preparation of System Insight

For the purpose of demonstrating how you can use System Insight to visualize metrics, the configurations and examples provided in the documentation show System Insight using InfluxDB 1.2 and Grafana 4.3.1, unless stated otherwise, to store and visualize data from .

You can run predefined scripts to configure , and install the embedded versions of InfluxDB and Grafana provided. Using CloudWatch as storage is also supported. If you choose to use CloudWatch, there is also a predefined script provided which you can use to configure System Insight with CloudWatch.

Alternatively, you can manually configure , and manually install InfluxDB, CloudWatch or another database, and Grafana or another visualization tool.