Prometheus loves Grafana
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The document discusses Prometheus, an open-source monitoring system, and its integration with Grafana. It highlights Prometheus' features, including its multi-dimensional data model and flexible query language, and compares its dashboarding tool, Promdash, with Grafana, which offers superior navigation and community support. A suggested roadmap for further integration and testing is also provided.
Prometheus loves Grafana
- 1. Prometheus loves Grafana Tobias Schmidt Production Engineer @ SoundCloud github.com/grobie
- 2. Prometheus http://prometheus.io An open-source service monitoring system and time series database.
- 3. Prometheus - Overview ● multi-dimensional data model ● PromQL - a flexible query language ● operationally very simple, just a single binary ● pull model to collect data ● many client libraries available (Go, Java, Python, Ruby, …) ● growing amount of exporters ● several graphing solutions available
- 5. Prometheus - Expression browser
- 7. PromDash
- 8. PromDash - Overview ● Prometheus’ dashboard editor ● Started mid 2013 ● GUI to build dashboards ● Rails+MySQL backend, dashboards saved as JSON ● Angular+Rickshaw(D3) frontend
- 9. Demo
- 11. “The power of Prometheus meets the beauty of Grafana. Dashboard all the things!” Jimmi Dyson @jimmidyson main contributor of the Grafana Prometheus integration
- 12. Comparison Promdash ● metric source templating ● legend formatting ● easier to move in time ● native iframe panel support ● some workflows are faster* * subjective Grafana ● better navigation ● powerful templating ● lots of graph styling options ● flexible dashboard arrangement ● more mature ● active and big community
- 13. Suggested roadmap 1. Support metric source templating in Grafana 2. Write Grafana exporter for PromDash 3. Let SoundCloud test Grafana and the migration 4. Propose official switch to the Prometheus community