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Grafana Cloud howto #518

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phillxnet opened this issue Jan 3, 2025 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #519
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Grafana Cloud howto #518

phillxnet opened this issue Jan 3, 2025 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #519
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A how-to is proposed on the setup & config of Grafana Alloy, a replacement of the now deprecated Grafana Agent. Alloy, as an Open Telemetry (OTel) collector, is an ideal candidate for remote monitoring of headless servers, such as Rockstor. This proposed how-to is 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.

To ease deployment, it is further proposed that the Free Tier of Grafana Cloud be employed as host for data stores of:

  • telemetry via a hosted Prometheus server (part of Grafana Cloud),
  • logs via Grafana Loki (also part of Grafana Cloud).

Display and data query services are also available similarly via the Free Tier.

As all elements involved are Open Source there is potential for migration to a fully self hosted variation. But that is not proposed as part of this proposal.

The envisioned telemetry source is via the openSUSE default repos package golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter, a Prometheus native plugin that Alloy can source/filter and translate into OTel protocols ready for remote-write to the proposed hosted Prometheus instance.
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Grafana Cloud howto rockstor#518
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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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Grafana Cloud howto - fix prometheus receiver template rockstor#518
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Remove an inadvertent url inclusion in the receivers example.
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