Grafana
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is an open-source observability platform that provides monitoring and visual analytics for application performance. Use Grafana to your data, from bar charts and histograms to pie charts and geomaps.
Integrating Grafana with Cortex allows you to:
in Cortex
Create that include rules related to Grafana dashboards
Before getting started:
Make sure your and has .
You will need the public embed link provided in the iframe snippet.
Define the public embed link in the for each entity where you want to embed a chart.
For the entity where you want to embed a chart, open its YAML file.
You can do this locally if following a approach, or you can edit a YAML file directly in the Cortex UI on the .
Add the x-cortex-dashboards
block. Include the type
(grafana
) and the url
(the public embed link you obtained from Grafana). See the example below:
type
Type of embed (in this case, grafana
)
✓
url
Embed URL for the Grafana dashboard
✓
Repeat the steps above for each entity you want to add a Grafana chart to.
In an entity's sidebar, click Dashboard. All charts defined in the entity descriptor will be embedded on this page.
With the Grafana integration, you can create Scorecard rules and write CQL queries based on Grafana charts.
Grafana charts are updated in real time.
I've correctly added the embed URL, but the graph is showing an error or a blank screen.
The following options are available to get assistance from the Cortex Customer Engineering team:
Chat: Available in the Resource Center
Slack: Users with a connected Slack channel will have a workflow added to their account. From here, you can either @CortexTechnicalSupport or add a :ticket:
reaction to a question in Slack, and the team will respond directly.
Don’t have a Slack channel? Talk with your Customer Success Manager.
Once you've defined the chart in an entity's YAML, you can view the graphs from an .
See more examples in the in Cortex.
You may need to in your Grafana instance.
Email: , or open a support ticket in the in app Resource Center