Grafana

Setting Up Prometheus and Grafana for a Patroni cluster

In today’s data-driven world, monitoring and visualizing the health and performance of your database clusters is a must. With tools like Prometheus and Grafana, you can gain valuable insights into your PostgreSQL Patroni setup, ensuring its smooth operation and(…)

Zabbix in the Middle of Prometheus and Grafana

In this blog post, I will show you how to gather metrics from a OpenTelemetry interface from a Zabbix server and how to display Zabbix data in Grafana. Why Should I do that? First, you might wonder why(…)

Redis: Redis X Grafana fix the “get instance error” message

Introduction Last time, we have seen how to add a Redis plugin to Grafana in order to monitor and generate graphs and charts for your reports or analysis. During this configuration you may encounter some issues or miss(…)

Display Load Test Results in Grafana

Lately, I played a lot with the de facto standard for monitoring visualization (ie. Grafana). It can display your data with great dashboard capabilities. On the other side, JMeter, a highly customizable load test tool, has visualization possibilities, but(…)

Migrating Monitoring Data from Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics

Now that we know the advantages of VictoriaMetrics over Prometheus (see my previous blog post), we have to find a way to migrate data between the two. If you have the default retention set in(…)

Predict the Future with Prometheus

As I am focusing on monitoring subject, I was wondering if it is possible to set alarm based on prediction instead of simple thresholds. Dynatrace has predictive anomaly detection feature, but in this blog, I want to test if(…)

Kafka Monitoring in Prometheus

Enabling monitoring on Kafka with Prometheus/Grafana is not more difficult than others exporters I configured in my previous monitoring in Prometheus blogs. Let’s see this together. JMX Exporter vs Kafka Exporter As Kafka is a Java based application,(…)

Observability vs Monitoring

Both words, observability and monitoring, are often used interchangeably and without taking care of the difference. Monitoring Monitoring is alerting based on known, predefined metrics and log patterns. Events Examples of events are: Trigger a minor event(…)

Nginx Monitoring in Prometheus

Following my two previous blogs about monitoring, I will now focus on Nginx. Nginx Inc provides an exporter with it’s code: https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-prometheus-exporter As Nginx cannot run a web application as(…)

Grafana, SQL and IN() list for multi-value variable

By Franck Pachot . I’ve recently looked at Grafana. Pros: it is really nice, I mean aesthetically. If you want to build a dashboard for your boss, or put it on a large screen in the open space, that’s(…)