Monitoring tools in the new age with Grafana

We know for old school monitoring tools are using Nagios, Cacti, CollectD. Well, that's what i use on my job to monitoring infrastructure.

No fancy graphic and display, no filter , only plain time range value with the monitored data.

Now, we see Grafana. I try grafana and its looks a like elastic kibana. Well, apparantly Grafana was a fork of Kibana 3.0 . Grafana is Free to use, but also have enterprise version which have support.

With grafana we can connect to multiple datastore. What i try was using prometheus, as it can be generate data also the TSDB it used. no need more DB for the storage.

Also we can also put our application metrics to prometheus to scrap and display it.

Now version 6.x , grafana have many plugin and chart template to be use.

It can also used for your monitoring dashboard to show alerts.

Alerts can be set using prometheus alert manager. all is there to be exploited.

Lets continue the journey with Grafana + prometheus + prometheus alert manager

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