Monitoring

Setting Up Monitoring

Grafana is an open-source, web-based analytics and monitoring platform. It provides powerful visualization tools, allowing you to create charts, graphs, and alerts for your infrastructure and applications.

VictoriaMetrics is a fast, scalable time series database and monitoring solution. It efficiently collects, stores, and processes metrics from your Kubernetes clusters and applications.

To set up monitoring for your environment:

1. Navigate to the Monitoring tab in the control server.

2. Click on Install Batteries or Manage Batteries. You’ll see a list of available monitoring batteries, including:

   • Grafana
   • Victoria Metrics
   • Kube Monitoring
   • Loki
   • Promtail

3. To install any of these components, simply click the Install button next to the desired battery.

4. For a well-rounded monitoring setup, we recommend installing both Grafana and VictoriaMetrics batteries. Installing the Victoria Metrics battery will also install the VM Operator, VM Agent, and VM Cluster batteries.

Accessing the Dashboards

Once you’ve installed Grafana and the necessary VictoriaMetrics components:

1. Return to the Monitoring tab in the control server.
2. Click on the either the Grafana or VM Select entry. This will open the Grafana or VictoriaMetrics dashboard in a new tab.

Cluster-Specific Grafana Dashboards

Batteries Included automatically creates Grafana dashboards for your clusters. To access these:

1. Navigate to the Kubernetes tab in the control server. This shows all active pods with their status.
2. Click on a pod you wish to monitor (e.g. a Jupyter Notebook pod.)
3. Look for the Grafana Dashboard button. Clicking this will open a pre-configured Grafana dashboard specific to that cluster.

Database cluster dashboards can also be accessed in their own page:

1. Go to the Datastores section.
2. Select the database cluster you want to monitor.
3. Click the Grafana Dashboard button to view metrics for that specific instance.