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How difficult is it to install Grafana and connect it to Zenoss Core 5 Is there a template I can download

Subject:	It's going to be available
Author:	Jan Garaj
Posted:	2015-11-10 13:21

It's going to be available soon with seamless Zenoss 5 integration:
- Zenoss events as annotations in Grafana graphs
- authentication against Zenoss instance - so you can use Zenoss credentials

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Subject:	I subscribed
Author:	Ken Jenkins
Posted:	2015-11-10 15:04

Currently I can connect remotely from Grafana to Zenoss Core 5 but the key / values do not show in Grafana,

I logged into the opentsdb container and updated /opt/zenoss/etc/opentsdb/opentsdb.conf to append:

sudo serviced service shell -i -s OpenTSDB_Enable_MetaData opentsdb bash

# Whether or not to enable real-time UIDMeta object creation.
tsd.core.meta.enable_realtime_uid = true
# Whether or not to enable real-time TSMeta object creation.|
tsd.core.meta.enable_realtime_ts = true

I saved the file and ran these commands but when I go back into the container the change was not saved.

root@375e45447750:/# vi /opt/zenoss/etc/opentsdb/opentsdb.conf
root@375e45447750:/# exit
exit

[zenoss@pmzen01 ~]$ serviced snapshot commit OpenTSDB_Enable_MetaData
223h85xnqkcc00soxtqbed8jv_20151110-203908

$ serviced service restart Zenoss.core
Restarting 39 service(s)

Help!
Thanks,
Ken

Subject:	Looking for help
Author:	Ken Jenkins
Posted:	2015-11-11 19:26

I checked user ID permissions and the zenoss login has permissions. Is there something not allowing the container to save and commit changes I need

Grafana connects fine but I cannot add tags.

Looking for assistance.

Thanks,
Ken

Subject:	Update on Grafana
Author:	Ken Jenkins
Posted:	2015-11-11 19:57

It looks like Grafana may not be providing me with device metrics. It may just be providing me with Zenoss Core 5 metrrics.

How do I configure Grafana to display device metrics

"CpuacctStat.system",
"CpuacctStat.user",
"cgroup.cpuacct.system",
"cgroup.cpuacct.user",
"cpu.idle",
"cpu.iowait",
"cpu.irq",
"cpu.nice",
"cpu.softirq",
"cpu.steal",
"cpu.system",
"cpu.user",
"redis.used_cpu_sys",
"redis.used_cpu_sys_children",
"redis.used_cpu_user",
"redis.used_cpu_user_children",

Subject:	What is the default login and
Author:	Ken Jenkins
Posted:	2015-11-12 11:52

What is the default login and password used to access https://opentsdb.hostname:4242/ I can connect to it using http://opentsdb.hostname

I believe I need to authenticate to get Grafana to access the Zenoss Core 5 OpenTSDB datasource for device metrics.

Subject:	Resolved: I found the login /
Author:	Ken Jenkins
Posted:	2015-11-12 13:04

Resolved: I found the login / password, edited the opentstdb.conf file, saved it via Control Center, restarted OpenTSDB and connected Grafana to Zenoss Core 5.

Subject:	Can You Describe Some More of What You Did?
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-12-29 07:38

Can you describe some more of what you did I was able to edit the opentstdb.conf file via Control Center, then I added a new datasource on Grafana using http://myIP:4242 using proxy access with basic auth using my root account for now (was there a default login/pw for OpenTSDB that you found). So, it says my data source is working when I test the connection, but now I'm not exactly sure where to go... I assume the Grafana is connected to my Zenoss 5 OpenTSDB but where do I go to start implementing graphs and creating dashboards Pretty new to Grafana as a whole.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Subject:	What I did was add an
Author:	Ken Jenkins
Posted:	2015-12-29 15:13

What I did was add an external OpenTSDB to allow Zenoss metrics to send to. I continued to use the local OpenTSDB in parallel with the external OpenTSDB though this may not be recommended but 2 OpenTSDB's seem to run fine in parallel. More than 3 seems to impact metric collections.

Edit MetricConsumer in Control Center -> Edit /opt/zenoss/etc/metric-consumer-app/configuration.yaml

Under metricService: append an additional host (Zenoss localhost OpenTSDB and the external OpenTSDB will receive metrics)

clients:
- {host: localhost, port: 4242}
- {host: 10.10.10.10 port: 4242}

Save and restart the Metric Consumer service.

On another host install Grafana. Once it is up and running and you want to create a new dashboard with metrics on it, configure Grafana to point to the external OpenTSDB datasource you are forwarding metrics to.

In Grafana, you can add metrics to view on a chart. i.e. in the metric field type in a device name or IP and a list of metrics will appear. Select what you want and chart the metrics.

I hope this helps.

Subject:	Turns out I had everything
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-12-30 15:07

Turns out I had everything working, just couldn't figure out how to navigate Grafana...

I am running the Docker instance of Grafana on the same host that I am running Zenoss 5 and everything seems to be connecting and working fine.

Subject:	It is good to know that this
Author:	Ken Jenkins
Posted:	2016-01-04 11:33

It is good to know that this works locally using a Docker instance of Grafana. My implementation differs from yours where I use an external OpenTSDB and Grafana instance run in parallel with the local Zenoss OpenTSDB.

Subject:	This was how I got my device
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2016-02-04 15:15

This was how I got my device metrics to work. I edited the opentsdb.conf file in CC like Jenkins stated, but I did not have to edit the MetricConsumer conf file.

Attach to your opentsdb container and get the IP of it; that is the IP you need to use as your data source.

serviced service attach opentsdb

then ifconfig and grab the IP, mine's the default 172.17.x.x.

Edit data source:

url: http://172.17.x.x:4242

Acess: proxy

No need for auth.

Subject:	Kr,
Author:	Ken Jenkins
Posted:	2016-02-04 17:55

Kr,

I have both working. Zenoss sending metrics to an external OpenTSDB and to the local OpenTSDB.

Connecting an external Grafana host to the Zenoss Local OpenTSDB ->

To get the external Grafana host to talk to Zenoss Core 5 on another host:

Append your opentsdb host name to the /etc/hosts file on the external Grafana host.

##.##.##.## opentsdb.zenoss5.env.domain.com

From the Grafana web interface:

Edit data source

Name "Zenoss5_OpenTSDB"

Type OpenTSDB

Url : https://opentsdb.zenoss5.env.domain.com

Access: proxy

Basic Auth (checked)

User zenoss_system

Password (what you have set in Zenoss)

Click Test Connection

If this fails you need to check connectivity, else click save

Create a Dashboard and add a Graph to look for metrics Zenoss is collecting.

I hope this helps.

Subject:	Jenkins (or anyone else),
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2016-02-05 16:24

Jenkins (or anyone else), have you been able to figure out Templating using the opentsdb instance

My goal is to have a template, similar to the Device Graph Definitions in Zenoss, where each device in a group, i.e. a device class, all have the same graphs.

It seems that all of my metrics are starting with the Device ID, so I have not been able to figure out how to create a wildcard for the device and look at metrics for any device with that metric.

So for example, I want a graph that shows total memory swap. Then I can check which devices I want to view on that graph of all their memory swapping.

Doe this make sense I have yet to figure it out, probably because I'm not too familiar with opentsdb querying.

Subject:	Moved
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2016-02-07 06:10