Skip to content

Setup Dashboards (Grafana) Service

Overview

Dashboards is a managed data visualization service that makes it easy to query, correlate and visualize metrics, logs from distributed cloud applications. It is built on fully open-source technology (Grafana) and supports unlimited dashboards.

Grafana is commonly used with Prometheus to visualize time series (metrics) data. This topic describes how to setup a Grafana service instance to visualize metrics data.

Prerequisites

User must setup a metrics service for the an application.

Setup

Create a Dashboards (Grafana) Service

From left navigation menu, select Services > Dashboards. A list of Dashboard services that are already created will be shown. The table will be empty if there are no Dashboard services being created in the system.

To create a new Dashboard service, click on CREATE on the top right corner. A new form will appear under Dashboards > Create.

Provide the following informaiton in the form:

  • Name: Name of the Dashboard service. This is usually an alpha-numeric string. For example, orders-app-dashboard.
  • Data source (metrics): Pick the Metrics Service this Grafana based dashboard will be visualizing.
  • Labels: Optional Key/Value information that may be added to this service. This enables you to categorize the resources in flexible ways. Use the + symbol to add additional labels.

Click SUBMIT to create the Dashboard service.

User may create a dedicated Grafana dashboard service using create subcommand and provide the name of the metrics service using --data-source option.

caeops dashboards create --name=demo-grafana-dashboard --labels=[{app=demo-app},{env=dev}] --data-source=demo-metrics-service

CloudAEye SaaS will connect the metrics service (Prometheus) as a data-source with Grafana dashboards service to fascilitate proper wiring out-of-the-box.

List All Grafana Dashboard(s)

From left navigation menu, select Services > Dashboards. A list of Dashboard services that are already created will be shown.

User may see a list of all Grafana dashboards for the account using list subcommand. 

caeops dashboards list

Get Details of a Grafana Dashboard

From left navigation menu, select Services > Dashboards. A list of Dashboard services that are already created will be shown.

To view the details of a service, click on the service name hyperlink under Service Name column.

The following information is shown:

  • Service name - Name of the service.
  • Region - Name of the public cloud region where the service is running.
  • Service endpoint - URL of the service endpoint.
  • Labels - Key/Value information associated with the service.
  • Create date - Date when the service was created.
  • Update date - Date when the service was last updated.

User may see details of a Grafana dashboard using get subcommand. 

caeops dashboards get --name=demo-grafana-dashboard

Add Labels to Grafana Dashboard

From left navigation menu, select Services > Dashboards. A list of Dashboard services that are already created will be shown.

To view the details of a service, click on the service name hyperlink under Service Name column.

Click on the pencil icon next the 'Labels'. A new form will appear. Add the Key / Value pair(s).

Click DONE to save the lable(s).

User may add labels to a Grafana dashboard to keep track of all the service instance using add-labels subcommand. 

caeops dashboards add-labels --name=demo-grafana-dashboard --labels=[{owner=nazrul},{dept=sales}]

Get Labels for a Grafana Dashboard

From left navigation menu, select Services > Dashboards. A list of Dashboard services that are already created will be shown.

To view the details of a service, click on the service name hyperlink under Service Name column. All associated labels for this service will be shown next to Labels.

User may see all the labels for a Grafana dashboard using get-labels subcommand. 

caeops dashboards get-labels --name=demo-grafana-dashboard

Delete Labels from a Grafana Dashboard

From left navigation menu, select Services > Dashboards. A list of Dashboard services that are already created will be shown.

To view the details of a service, click on the service name hyperlink under Service Name column. All associated labels for this service will be shown next to Labels.

Click on the pencil icon to make changes to the labels. Click on X icon to remove labels.

Click DONE to save the updated lables.

User may remove labels from a Grafana dashboard to keep track of all the service instance using delete-labels subcommand. 

caeops dashboards delete-labels --name=demo-grafana-dashboard --labels=[{owner=nazrul}]

Delete a Grafana Dashboard

From left navigation menu, select Services > Dashboards. A list of Dashboard services that are already created will be shown.

Click on X icon under Actions column. A confirmation windown will be shown.

Click CONFIRM to delete the Dashboard service.

User may delete a Grafana dashboard using delete subcommand. 

caeops dashboards delete --name=demo-grafana-dashboard