27 Oct
2019
27 Oct
'19
9:26 p.m.
Hi,
A few customers have been testing this for a while now, and it's
been a while since the last issues were addressed, so now seems like
a good time to announce it.
We're going to be retiring our Cacti instance¹ in favour of the new
setup which can be found at:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/grafana/
You all already have access to it.
Those who are familiar with Prometheus and Grafana may be a little
disappointed: this is not intended to be a full hosted instance,
only a fairly locked-down replacement for what Cacti provides. I'm
satisfied that it goes beyond the functionality and usability of
Cacti, but it isn't like having your own setup and isn't intended to
be.
Everyone has a default dashboard exposing graphs similar to those
provided by Cacti, plus a few more besides.
The offer was always open for more of your metrics to be graphed by
Cacti, but as of today only one customer was making use of that. The
offer is still open for us to graph extra metrics from you if you
wish. To do that you'll first need to install Node Exporter² and
then send a support ticket. You'll then get an additional
dashboard that looks like a bit like this:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/grafana/dashboard/snapshot/fysbHKJGqJm3Fq6KmtqlRJ…
Over the next week or two a wiki article for our Grafana will appear
and any references to Cacti on our web sites and docs will start to
disappear, except for a pointer to historical Cacti graphs. Update
of Cacti graphs is going to be disabled very soon.
Feedback on the service is still welcome of course, though the
general approach is by now pretty much decided.
Cheers,
Andy
¹ https://tools.bitfolk.com/cacti/
² Available as your usual kind of single Go binary from here:
https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter
but also available in modern Debian (at least) as a package.
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28 Oct
7:08 a.m.
New subject: Switching to Prometheus+Grafana for graphing (away from Cacti)
On 27/10/2019 21:26, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
A few customers have been testing this for a while now, and it's
been a while since the last issues were addressed, so now seems like
a good time to announce it.
We're going to be retiring our Cacti instance¹ in favour of the new
setup which can be found at:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/grafana/
You all already have access to it.
Just tried it and got:
If you're seeing this Grafana has failed to load its application files
1. This could be caused by your reverse proxy settings.
2. If you host grafana under subpath make sure your grafana.ini root_url
setting includes subpath
3. If you have a local dev build make sure you build frontend using:
yarn start, yarn start:hot, or yarn build
4. Sometimes restarting grafana-server can help
Presumably it's not talking about *my* reverse proxy settings?
Cheers,
John
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7:34 a.m.
New subject: Switching to Prometheus+Grafana for graphing (away from Cacti)
Hi John,
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 07:08:58AM +0000, John Winters wrote:
On 27/10/2019 21:26, Andy Smith wrote:
In the last half hour I did attempt to sneakily reboot it twice
hoping no one would notice, so it may have been that. Sorry about
that. Thinking about it, it was pretty silly of me to do that on a
service I've only just announced the availability of! Trying to
solve an unrelated problem on that host and got a bit of tunnel
vision there.
I've finished with that now and having checked, Grafana is working
okay for me bpth as admin and as a user. Can you have another go and
let me know if it's still not working please?
Cheers,
Andy
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https://tools.bitfolk.com/grafana/
You all already have access to it.
Just tried it and got:
If you're seeing this Grafana has failed to load its application files
7:41 a.m.
New subject: Switching to Prometheus+Grafana for graphing (away from Cacti)
On 28/10/2019 07:34, Andy Smith wrote:
Can you have another go and
let me know if it's still not working please?
Working beautifully now. Ta.
John
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10:16 a.m.
New subject: Switching to Prometheus+Grafana for graphing (away from Cacti)
Thank you, Andy!
This is really excellent, Grafana creates fantastic graphs.
On 27/10/2019 21:26, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
A few customers have been testing this for a while now, and it's
been a while since the last issues were addressed, so now seems like
a good time to announce it.
We're going to be retiring our Cacti instance¹ in favour of the new
setup which can be found at:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/grafana/
You all already have access to it.
Those who are familiar with Prometheus and Grafana may be a little
disappointed: this is not intended to be a full hosted instance,
only a fairly locked-down replacement for what Cacti provides. I'm
satisfied that it goes beyond the functionality and usability of
Cacti, but it isn't like having your own setup and isn't intended to
be.
Everyone has a default dashboard exposing graphs similar to those
provided by Cacti, plus a few more besides.
The offer was always open for more of your metrics to be graphed by
Cacti, but as of today only one customer was making use of that. The
offer is still open for us to graph extra metrics from you if you
wish. To do that you'll first need to install Node Exporter² and
then send a support ticket. You'll then get an additional
dashboard that looks like a bit like this:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/grafana/dashboard/snapshot/fysbHKJGqJm3Fq6KmtqlRJ…
Over the next week or two a wiki article for our Grafana will appear
and any references to Cacti on our web sites and docs will start to
disappear, except for a pointer to historical Cacti graphs. Update
of Cacti graphs is going to be disabled very soon.
Feedback on the service is still welcome of course, though the
general approach is by now pretty much decided.
Cheers,
Andy
¹ https://tools.bitfolk.com/cacti/
² Available as your usual kind of single Go binary from here:
https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter
but also available in modern Debian (at least) as a package.
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