Environment Monitoring

Introduction

Scaling the FRMS Solution effectively means we will need to observe bottlenecks to scale effectively. Our monitoring Solution consists of Prometheus (https://prometheus.io/ ) for data collection and Grafana (https://grafana.com/ ) for data visualization.

Our NATS , DNS and Arango metrics are all being scraped by Prometheus.

Data Source

Before we can import any dashboard we require a datasource. Open the Grafana Dashboard.

1. Navigate to Add Data Source and choose Prometheus:
   
   

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2. Point towards your prometheus Server:
   
   

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3. Scroll to the end, Press “Save & Test“ - if all is well, you should see the following message:
   
   

Dashboards

We will mainly be importing dashboard in this example, but you are welcome to create your own.

Navigate to dashboards:

1. Click import
   
   

    

2. You can import via JSON or Dashboard Code
   
   

Depending on dashboard, remember to set datasource to our defined Prometheus data source.