blueflood-grafana

Source code of the blueflood-grafana plugin to use Blueflood or Rackspace-metrics as a datasouce with grafana. This plugin works with Grafana 3.x

Pre-requisites

• Running blueflood or Rackspace-metrics

• This plugin requires graphite-api with blueflood finder as a service. You can setup this by running the rackerlabs/graphite-api-blueflood-finder docker image as container.

# graphite-api with blueflood finder
    docker run \
        -d -p 8888:8888 \
        -e GRAFANA_URLS=http://localhost:3000,http://192.168.1.200:3000 \
        -e BLUEFLOOD_QUERY_URL=http://localhost:20000\
        -e TENANT_ID=123 \
        rackerlabs/graphite-api-blueflood-finder

• A grafana 3.x installation

Installation

Install by using grafana-cli

grafana-cli plugins install rackerlabs-blueflood-datasource

Installing compiled plugin

To install the compiled plugin, use the compiled code in the blueflood-grafana-plugin repository.

1. Install the plugin by copying it to /var/lib/grafana/plugins. Grafana plugins are usually located at /var/lib/grafana/plugins but Grafana also provides a way to configure the path of plugins location.

   cd /var/lib/grafana/plugins
   git clone https://github.com/rackerlabs/blueflood-grafana-plugin.git

2. Restart grafana

Steps to build plugin from source code

cd blueflood-grafana
npm install
npm install -g grunt-cli
grunt

The built plugin is available in ./dist directory. Copy ./dist to grafana plugins direcory and restart grafana.

cp -r ./dist /var/lib/grafana/plugins

##Configure Grafana

Follow the instructions to configure blueflood or Rackspace-metrics as datasource.

Blueflood datasource

Blueflood is an open source multi-tenant, distributed metric processing system. This plugin allows you to visualize metrics stored in blueflood via grafana.

Rackspace-metrics datasource

Rackspace-metrics is a SaaS offering for storing metrics. This plugin allows you to visualize metrics stored in Rackspace-metrics via grafana.