Grafana

NOT PORTED YET

• Install
  • On Mac
• CLI
• API
• Grafana Alerts vs Prometheus Alert Manager
• Grafana AWS Cloudwatch Dashboards

Install

On Mac

brew install grafana

CLI

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/cli/

Comes with the grafana package above.

Very limited functionality. API below is much better.

grafana cli --help

API

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/

From DevOps-Bash-tools repo:

grafana_api.sh --help

The --help shows various examples you can use straight away.

Grafana Alerts vs Prometheus Alert Manager

Grafana alerts occasionally missed alerts, if the pod went down it lost alerts as they were are persisted, so switched to using Prometheus Alert Manager.

Grafana AWS Cloudwatch Dashboards

monitoringartist/grafana-aws-cloudwatch-dashboards

40+ Grafana dashboards for AWS CloudWatch metrics: EC2, Lambda, S3, ELB, EMR, EBS, SNS, SES, SQS, RDS, EFS, ElastiCache, Billing, API Gateway, VPN, Step Functions, Route 53, CodeBuild, ...