Grafana
Download and run grafana
- Go to the Grafana website and download the latest stable release
- For this exercise we will use the Standalone Linux Binaries(64 Bit)
$ wget https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/grafana-releases/release/grafana-5.3.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz $ tar -zxvf grafana-5.3.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz $ cd grafana-5.3.2 $ ./bin/grafana-server
- Open Grafana in your browser
Setup prometheus
Add your prometheus server as a datasource + import the prometheus dashboards
Monitor grafana in prometheus (add it as a target)
Look at the grafana dashboards
Create a new dashboard
Create a new dashboard which enables you to pick someone's prometheus and gather info: samples scrapes, scrape duration, ... using variables.
Your dashboard should contain at least a singlestat panel, a variable and a graph panel.
Info
Grafana also support tables and heapmaps for Prometheus