Send VM Metrics directly to Grafana

[Edmond Begumisa]

There's a useful little MIT-licensed plugin which allows Grafana to  
directly query JSON data sources over HTTP(S):

     https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/simpod-json-datasource

To use, you'd implement the plugin's simple API on the Erlang side.

    https://github.com/simPod/grafana-json-datasource#api

If for some reason that would fail pen-testing, you could use that code as  
an example of how to implement your own Grafana datasource. But that's  
probably overkill.

- Edmond -

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:35:52 +1000, Frank Muller  
<frank.muller.erl@REDACTED> wrote:

> Thanks, I'll check them out.
>
> Le lun. 28 oct. 2019 à 13:22, Gerhard Lazu <gerhard@REDACTED> a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Question: is there a way to send the VM metrics directly to Grafana?
>>
>> No. You need to use one of the supported data sources (Prometheus is  
>> just one of them): https://>>grafana.com/docs/features/datasources/
>>
>> Would Pushgateway work in your case?  
>> https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/pushing/
>>
>> Influxdb would be my next choice:  
>> https://grafana.com/docs/features/datasources/influxdb/
>>
>> Linking just in case you haven't seen https://opentelemetry.io/about/ &  
>> https://opencensus.io/>>exporters/. Notice that Datadog accepts both  
>> metrics & traces. Maybe that would be a low-friction >>alternative.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 12:04 PM Frank Muller  
>> <frank.muller.erl@REDACTED> wrote:
>>> Hi guys
>>>
>>> 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.
>>> I know that a Prometheus Erlang client do exist, but our partner  
>>> refused to deploy Prometheus >>>(didn’t pass their pentesting phase).
>>>
>>> Any other alternative will be welcomed.
>>> /Frank
>>>
>>
>



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