3 years ago

Category: Database, Data

At least for metrics collected by monitoring tools such as Prometheus, OpenTSDB

It can be used to pull metrics from a machine, web-server, database, load balancer, messaging queues, CI, loggers, other monitoring systems, and cloud providers.

Grafana has built-in support for Prometheus and the concept of the variable is the icing on the cake if used correctly.

First of all, make the data source as a variable so that the dashboard is not limited to any specific Prometheus instance.

If you are using Prometheus in federation mode then you may need to further select any specific Prometheus or all of them.