Grafana Cloud howto #518 #519
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Intended to serve as a step-by-step guide on how to establish time based telemetry appropriate for NAS monitoring; using all Open Source and Open Telemetry means. In this case utilising Cloud hosted metrics & log servers, which can, in-turn, also provide graphical dashboards based on the collected metrics.
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This is proposed to enable more eyes on this type of remote monitoring. Note: as-is it is also in need of more refinement regarding the presented configuration: however that is, in-part, the purposed of getting this published in our docs. What is presented thus-far results in, easy onboarding with the following config graphed by the Alloy Web-UI:
and a working Grafana Cloud dashboard. There-are, however, many improvements we can make. But I'm interested mainly in getting this published so we can get more feedback on what improvements might be made within the how-tos scope. N.B. The Grafana Alloy approach is some-what young: but represents an amalgamation of many older technologies. So we may just have to tend to this how-to as bugs and upstream write-ups improve. |
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An example of the resulting metrics graphical abstraction managed by the hosted Prometheus server backend:
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| The following installs and start the node_exporter service. |
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| The following installs and start the node_exporter service. | |
| The following installs and starts the node_exporter service. |
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| Grafana Alloy (licensed Apache-2.0) supersedes its now deprecate predecessor `Grafana Agent <https://grafana.com/docs/agent/latest/>`_. |
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| Grafana Alloy (licensed Apache-2.0) supersedes its now deprecate predecessor `Grafana Agent <https://grafana.com/docs/agent/latest/>`_. | |
| Grafana Alloy (licensed Apache-2.0) supersedes its now deprecated predecessor `Grafana Agent <https://grafana.com/docs/agent/latest/>`_. |
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| If Alloy was previously running, you will need to restart it via: `systemctl restart alloy.service`. | ||
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| 4. Once the provided Test has passed, proceed with the rest of the instructions. |
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| 4. Once the provided test has passed, proceed with the rest of the instructions. |
Fixes #518
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Provide a step-by-step guide on how to establish time based telemetry appropriate for NAS monitoring; using all Open Source and Open Telemetry means. In this case utilising Cloud hosted metrics & log servers, which can, in-turn, also provide graphical dashboards based on the collected metrics.
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