If you ever played around with time series data and wanted to visualize them with graphs in a nice way you probably have heard about Grafana. This post provides a step-by-step instruction on how to build a Grafana-playground in about 15 minutes. The setup will be build of statsd to collect metrics, graphite to store those metrics, and Grafana to visualize those metrics. We will also create and push custom metrics and create templated graphs based on them. This post won’t provide any in-depth details about statsd, graphite and Grafana itself.