Grafana¶
Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB. OpenStack runs Graphite which stores all the metrics related to Nodepool and Zuul (to name a few).
At a Glance¶
Overview¶
Apache is configured as a reverse proxy to Grafana running in a container, listening on port 3000.
Local Development¶
To develop dashboards, you can run the OpenDev Grafana container. Firstly, get setup:
$ cd <work dir>
$ mkdir secrets
$ echo "password" > secrets/admin_password
$ echo "admin" > secrets/admin_user
$ echo "key" > secrets/secret_key
$ git clone https://opendev.org/openstack/project-config
Then run the container with the following options:
$ cd <work dir>
$ sudo podman run \
-p 3000:3000 \
-v ./secrets:/etc/grafana/secrets \
-v ./project-config:/opt/project-config \
-e GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ENABLED=true \
-e GF_USERS_ALLOW_SIGN_UP=false \
-e GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD__FILE=/etc/grafana/secrets/admin_password \
-e GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_USER__FILE=/etc/grafana/secrets/admin_user \
-e GF_SECURITY_SECRET_KEY__FILE=/etc/grafana/secrets/secret_key \
docker.io/opendevorg/grafana
At this point, Grafana will be running and listening on port 3000.
You can log into as admin
with password
(or using your secrets
above).
This is unconfigured and does not yet talk to the OpenDev Graphite
instance. The dashboard definitions are kept in
project-config/grafana
. To load them exec
the
update-grafana
script in the container (i.e. podman exec
<running-container> update-grafana
). That will run grafyaml
and
load in the updated dashboards (note it relies on things being mapped
as above). To work on dashboards, update the yaml
files in
project-config
and re-run update-grafana
, then reload them in
the Grafana UI.
Alternatively, you can use the Grafana editor to make the dashboards, and then under “Dashboard Settings” (gear icon) select “JSON Model” and commit that (it seems you have to cut-and-paste, there isn’t currently a way to export the JSON as such).