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Grafana is an open-source platform used for monitoring, visualization, and analysis of data. You can view and create dashboards to display various metrics and information from sources like Prometheus, Graphite, ElasticSearch / OpenSearch or databases.

Our Grafana instance is available at https://grafana.nasqueron.org/.

Dashboards

A selection of useful dashboards
Name URL Purpose
FreeBSD servers Fe-Cw1rSg Monitor health and status of servers
Linux servers nFaqw19Sg Monitor health and status of servers
Docker engines 066kl1rSg Statistics from Docker Prometheus metrics
Prometheus  UDdpyzz7z Check how Prometheus behave

Troubleshoot

Admin account access

Credentials for the admin account is stored on Vault:

   $ vault kv get ops/infra/grafana/admin

This account is intended to be used only to create other ops accounts.

UI is loaded but states it doesn't work

Grafana is deployed as a FreeBSD package. After the package has been updated:

   $ service grafana restart