VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.4

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Monitor solution metrics with
Grafana
 and
Prometheus

You can use the
Grafana
 Portal to get insights about the state of the solution nodes and runtime.
  • Verify that the
    Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
     clusters in your organization are deployed with
    Kubernetes
     1.22 or later.
  • Verify that a cluster administrator has installed and preconfigured
    Grafana
     7.6.7 or later, provided by the
    Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
     cluster.
  • Verify that a cluster administrator has installed and preconfigured
    Prometheus
     2.27 later, provided by the
    Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
     cluster.
Prometheus
 is an open source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit, which collects and stores metrics from target clusters.
Grafana
 is an open source visualization and analytics software. The
Grafana
 portal provides visual representation of the metrics, collected by
Prometheus
. See
Implement Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
 in the
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
 documentation
.

Configure
Grafana
 and
Prometheus
 for
VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions

You must configure
Grafana
 and
Prometheus
 before you begin using the
Grafana
 portal.

Grafana
 configuration

The
Grafana
 service must be running in the namespace
tanzu-system-dashboards
, and
Contour
 must be installed to expose the
Grafana
 service through the HTTPProxy custom resource. See
Implement Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
 in the
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
 documentation
.

Prometheus
 configuration

To see the solution statistics, you must add the solution scraping endpoints to the
prometheus-server
 configuration file. See Configuration in the
Prometheus
 documentation.
Prometheus
 Scraping Configurations
Solution
Prometheus
 Scraping Endpoint Scheme
VMware RabbitMQ
HTTP or HTTPS
VMware SQL with Postgres
HTTPS
VMware SQL with MySQL
HTTPS
MongoDB Community
HTTP
MongoDB Enterprise
HTTP
Confluent Platform
HTTP

Open the solution instance
Grafana
 Portal

Monitor the data insights of a specific solution instance, by opening the
Grafana
 Portal.
  1. Log in to
    VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions
     from
    VMware Cloud Director
    .
  2. Click
    Instances
     and select the solution instance, for which you want to open the
    Grafana
     Portal.
  3. Click
    Open Grafana Portal
    .

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