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Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released

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Re: Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released

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Post by regecks »

jmedefind wrote: post #7
kawsper wrote: post #6

Grafana really looks interesting, and it is interesting that you can add all the different backends to it, for an example I didn't know you can use Elasticsearch as a timeseries backend. Is it correct that Grafana works best with Graphite? At least that seems to be my impression, and it is a bit sad, since I think Graphite is cool, but it really has a lot of moving parts.

I've used it with Influxdb, Elasticsearch, and Prometheus. They all worked great. I can't think of any reason to use Graphite.

Indeed. We reduced our write iops by 95% by moving from Graphite/Carbon to Influx. Try one of the newer databases!

Re: Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released

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Post by RRRA »

cheald wrote: post #16

Influx + Telegraf + Grafana is such a simple, sweet stack. No work to maintain, trivial to set up, I can ship just about anything I want into it, and reporting is fast. With alerting in place now, I'm even happier than ever. A huge thank you to the Grafana team for solving a huge pain point!

What transport are you using to secure telegraf into influxdb?

(Haven't tried telegraf yet, setuping a prometheus at the moment)

Re: Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released

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Post by alfalfasprout »

RRRA wrote: post #23
cheald wrote: post #16

Influx + Telegraf + Grafana is such a simple, sweet stack. No work to maintain, trivial to set up, I can ship just about anything I want into it, and reporting is fast. With alerting in place now, I'm even happier than ever. A huge thank you to the Grafana team for solving a huge pain point!

What transport are you using to secure telegraf into influxdb? (Haven't tried telegraf yet, setuping a prometheus at the moment)

Not sure what you mean "secure telegraph into influxdb" but we've had great success with this stack for monitoring by just embedding an HTTP server into each application that needs to be monitored. We keep the HTTP server separate from any others used by the application (i.e. it runs on a separate thread) so performance isn't impacted.

Re: Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released

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Post by user5994461 »

pfranz wrote: post #11

I'm currently using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager. I'm a big fan of the linux terminal, versioned config files, and separation of concerns but the rest of my team prefers web interfaces so I'm basically the only one maintaining Alertmanager. Grafana Altering looks appealing. What have other people had success with?

I've had success with killing all the s* free open source tools (Grafana, graphite, prometheus, whisper, icinga, nagios, carbon, ganglia, influxdb, zabbix...)

And using a single paid tool that does the job better AND doesn't kill me in maintenance work.

See https://www.datadoghq.com/ as leader or https://signalfx.com/ as the second comer, or http://www.bmcsoftware.uk/it-solutions/truesight.html if you're enterprisey.

Re: Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released

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Post by thesorrow »

RRRA wrote: post #24

It'd be nice if this meant being able to use Grafana as a frontend to alertmanager. (Writing those "ALERT ..." requires a steep learning curve.)

This is exactly what I was thinking! I'd love to know what the dev of Prometheus think about alerting in Grafana...

Re: Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released

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Post by user5994461 »

Quick note for the ones who are tired of the giant clusterfuck of open-source tools for monitoring + alerting + storage + other, which is no less than:

- statsd

- collectd

- graphite

- whisper

- carbon

- prometheus

- grafana

- seyren

- riemann

- nagios

- icinga

- zabbix

There are multiple modern SaaS software that will do all of that in a single tool with better integrations, more polish, less work and no maintenance.

1) See https://www.datadoghq.com and last news https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/12/investors-feed-datadog-a-h...

2) https://signalfx.com/ and last news https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/12/signalfx-emerges-from-stea...

3) http://www.bmcsoftware.uk/it-solutions/truesight.html if you're not anti entreprisey (that was the "Boundary" startup, bought by BMC a few years ago and integrated in their offerings).

And don't think that they are "new" fancy tools. They've been around for many years.

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