Grafana integration

Aidbox metrics has integration with Grafana, which can generate dashboards and upload it to Grafana

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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

datasource (Optional) - specify prometheus like datasource name. Default: Prometheus

kibana-url (Optional) - specify Kibana base url for generating a drill-down link to Kibana.

Result

status - "200 OK"

Error

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

status - "200 OK"

Error

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

Expects no parameters

Result

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"}