<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Question: is there a way to send the VM metrics directly to Grafana?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>No. You need to use one of the supported data sources (Prometheus is just one of them): <a href="https://grafana.com/docs/features/datasources/">https://grafana.com/docs/features/datasources/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Would Pushgateway work in your case? <a href="https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/pushing/">https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/pushing/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Influxdb would be my next choice: <a href="https://grafana.com/docs/features/datasources/influxdb/">https://grafana.com/docs/features/datasources/influxdb/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Linking just in case you haven't seen <a href="https://opentelemetry.io/about/">https://opentelemetry.io/about/</a> & <a href="https://opencensus.io/exporters/">https://opencensus.io/exporters/</a>. Notice that Datadog accepts both metrics & traces. Maybe that would be a low-friction alternative.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 12:04 PM Frank Muller <<a href="mailto:frank.muller.erl@gmail.com">frank.muller.erl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi guys</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">While deploying one of our Erlang products in a highly secure environment (private bank), this partner required from us to export the VM metrics to Grafana. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I know that a Prometheus Erlang client do exist, but our partner refused to deploy Prometheus (didn’t pass their pentesting phase).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">Any other alternative will be welcomed. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">/Frank</div>
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