Monitoring Tungsten Clusters Using Prometheus and Grafana
Tungsten Dashboard has introduced basic support for using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor Tungsten Clusters. As of Tungsten Clustering software v6.1.4, key Prometheus exporters have been added to the distribution. These exporters will allow a Prometheus server to gather metrics for:
- The MySQL server and the underlying node "hardware" using external binaries added to the distribution
- The Tungsten Manager, Replicator and Connector using new built-in functionality
A new script has been included to assist with the management and testing of the exporters called tmonitor.
To learn more about the tmonitor command and the included exporters, please visit "Monitoring Status Using Prometheus Exporters" for more information.
To get the most benefit out of the exporters along with ensuring both ease of configuration and security, Continuent requires that both the Prometheus and Grafana servers be installed onto the same instance hosting the Dashboard web server when using the Prometheus and Grafana integration with Dashboard.