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Grafana integration

Aidbox metrics has integration with Grafana, which can generate dashboards and upload it to Grafana
Please start a discussion or contact us if you have questions, feedback, or suggestions.

Configuration

You need to set up the following environment variables:
Environment variable
Description
BOX_INSTANCE_NAME
Provided instance name will be attached to metrics labels. Required for monitoring of multiple Aidbox instances.
BOX_METRICS_GRAFANA_URL
Grafana instance url
BOX_METRICS_GRAFANA_USER
Grafana user name
BOX_METRICS_GRAFANA_PASSWORD
Grafana user password

RPC Methods

Сreated dashboards will be placed in the aidboxgen folder

aidbox.metrics/update-aidbox-dashboard

Generates dashboards with instance-specific metrics
Parameters
Result
Error
datasource (Optional) - specify prometheus like datasource name. Default: Prometheus
kibana-url (Optional) - specify Kibana base url for generating a drill-down link to Kibana.
status - "200 OK"
error - "Provide following environment variables: BOX_METRICS_GRAFANA_USER, BOX_METRICS_GRAFANA_PASSWORD, BOX_METRICS_GRAFANA_URL"
error - <Grafana internal error>

Request example

POST /rpc
content-type: application/edn
​
{:method aidbox.metrics/update-aidbox-dashboard
:params {:datasource "My Prometheus Datasource name"
:kibana-url "https://my.kibana.url.com"}
Grafana Aidbox Dashboard

aidbox.metrics/update-cluster-dashboard

Generates dashboards with cluster-specific metrics
Parameters
Result
Error
​
status - "200 OK"
error - "Provide following environment variables: BOX_METRICS_GRAFANA_USER, BOX_METRICS_GRAFANA_PASSWORD, BOX_METRICS_GRAFANA_URL"
error - <Grafana internal error>
Required Prometheus exporters:
  • kube-state-metrics
  • node-exporter
  • cadvisor

Request example

POST /rpc
content-type: application/edn
​
{:method aidbox.metrics/update-cluster-dashboard}

aidbox.metrics/get-aidbox-dashboard

Generates dashboards as a JSON
Parameters
Result
Expects no parameters
Grafana dashboard JSON:
{
"uid": "metrics-dev",
"title": "Aidbox metrics dev",
// omitted
}
Required Prometheus exporters:
  • kube-state-metrics
  • node-exporter
  • cadvisor

Request example

POST /rpc
content-type: application/json
accept: application/json
​
{"method": "aidbox.metrics/get-aidbox-dashboard"}
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