Aiven's guide provides a detailed walkthrough on using InfluxDB and Grafana to collect and monitor metrics, highlighting a case study involving the health monitoring of a quality assurance system in an industrial manufacturing line. The system utilizes IP-based video cameras and IO triggers to capture images of artifacts, with the data visualized on a Grafana dashboard to verify system functionality. InfluxDB serves as the time-series database underpinning the solution, benefiting from its fast query capabilities and adaptive compression algorithms. Telegraf acts as the metrics collector, interfacing with InfluxDB via StatsD, allowing seamless and secure metrics transmission. The guide emphasizes the ease of setting up these services through Aiven, where Grafana and InfluxDB services are preconfigured to work together, simplifying the visualization of data. The article concludes by encouraging readers to explore further resources on using open-source tools for observability and to consider signing up for Aiven's services.