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, Zuul and Jenkins (to name a few).

At a Glance

Hosts:

• http://grafana.openstack.org

Puppet:

• https://github.com/bfraser/puppet-grafana
• system-config: modules/openstack_project/manifests/grafana.pp

Projects:

• http://grafana.org

Bugs:

• https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/748

Overview

Apache is configured as a reverse proxy and there is a MySQL database backend.

Sysadmin

After bringing up a Grafana node with puppet, log in and configure Grafana by hand:

1. Log in as the admin user.
2. Under ‘Data Sources’, add a new entry with following:
   • name: OpenStack
   • type: Graphite
   • default: checked
   • url: http://graphite.openstack.org
   • access: direct