Envoy integration for Grafana Cloud
Envoy is an L7 proxy and communication bus designed for large modern service oriented architectures.
This integration includes 1 pre-built dashboard to help monitor and visualize Envoy metrics.
Before you begin
To enable the Prometheus metrics endpoint, you need to activate (Envoy’s admin interface)[https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/start/quick-start/admin#admin].
To do so, add the following snippet to your node configuration file:
admin:
address:
socket_address:
address: 0.0.0.0
port_value: 9901Install Envoy integration for Grafana Cloud
- In your Grafana Cloud stack, click Connections in the left-hand menu.
- Find Envoy and click its tile to open the integration.
- Review the prerequisites in the Configuration Details tab and set up Grafana Agent to send Envoy metrics to your Grafana Cloud instance.
- Click Install to add this integration’s pre-built dashboard to your Grafana Cloud instance, and you can start monitoring your Envoy setup.
Post-install configuration for the Envoy integration
Instruct Grafana Agent to scrape your Envoy nodes.
Envoy exposes a /stats/prometheus endpoint. To scrape it, add the provided snippet to your agent configuration file.
Make sure to change targets in the snippet according to your environment.
Configuration snippets for Grafana Agent
Below metrics.configs.scrape_configs, insert the following lines and change the URLs according to your environment:
- job_name: integrations/envoy
metrics_path: /stats/prometheus
relabel_configs:
- replacement: '<your-instance-name>'
target_label: instance
static_configs:
- targets: ['localhost:9901']Full example configuration for Grafana Agent
Refer to the following Grafana Agent configuration for a complete example that contains all the snippets used for the Envoy integration. This example also includes metrics that are sent to monitor your Grafana Agent instance.
integrations:
prometheus_remote_write:
- basic_auth:
password: <your_prom_pass>
username: <your_prom_user>
url: <your_prom_url>
agent:
enabled: true
relabel_configs:
- action: replace
source_labels:
- agent_hostname
target_label: instance
- action: replace
target_label: job
replacement: "integrations/agent-check"
metric_relabel_configs:
- action: keep
regex: (prometheus_target_.*|prometheus_sd_discovered_targets|agent_build.*|agent_wal_samples_appended_total|process_start_time_seconds)
source_labels:
- __name__
# Add here any snippet that belongs to the `integrations` section.
# For a correct indentation, paste snippets copied from Grafana Cloud at the beginning of the line.
logs:
configs:
- clients:
- basic_auth:
password: <your_loki_pass>
username: <your_loki_user>
url: <your_loki_url>
name: integrations
positions:
filename: /tmp/positions.yaml
scrape_configs:
# Add here any snippet that belongs to the `logs.configs.scrape_configs` section.
# For a correct indentation, paste snippets copied from Grafana Cloud at the beginning of the line.
metrics:
configs:
- name: integrations
remote_write:
- basic_auth:
password: <your_prom_pass>
username: <your_prom_user>
url: <your_prom_url>
scrape_configs:
# Add here any snippet that belongs to the `metrics.configs.scrape_configs` section.
# For a correct indentation, paste snippets copied from Grafana Cloud at the beginning of the line.
- job_name: integrations/envoy
metrics_path: /stats/prometheus
relabel_configs:
- replacement: '<your-instance-name>'
target_label: instance
static_configs:
- targets: ['localhost:9901']
global:
scrape_interval: 60s
wal_directory: /tmp/grafana-agent-walDashboards
The Envoy integration installs the following dashboards in your Grafana Cloud instance to help monitor your system.
- Envoy Overview
Metrics
The most important metrics provided by the Envoy integration, which are used on the pre-built dashboard, are as follows:
- envoy_cluster_upstream_cx_active
- envoy_cluster_upstream_cx_total
- envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_active
- envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_time_bucket
- envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_time_count
- envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_time_sum
- envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_timeout
- envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_total
- envoy_cluster_upstream_rq_xx
- envoy_cluster_version
- envoy_http_downstream_cx_active
- envoy_http_downstream_rq_active
- envoy_http_downstream_rq_time_bucket
- envoy_http_downstream_rq_time_count
- envoy_http_downstream_rq_time_sum
- envoy_http_downstream_rq_timeout
- envoy_http_downstream_rq_total
- envoy_http_downstream_rq_xx
- envoy_listener_downstream_cx_total
- envoy_server_uptime
Changelog
# 0.0.5 - September 2023
* New Filter Metrics option for configuring the Grafana Agent, which saves on metrics cost by dropping any metric not used by this integration. Beware that anything custom built using metrics that are not on the snippet will stop working.
* New hostname relabel option, which applies the instance name you write on the text box to the Grafana Agent configuration snippets, making it easier and less error prone to configure this mandatory label.
# 0.0.4 - January 2023
* Update mixin to latest version:
- Updated `job` and `instance` template variables to support multi-select
- Updated template variables with correct labels
# 0.0.3 - October 2022
* Adding instructions to enable the Prometheus metrics endpoint
# 0.0.2 - September 2022
* Update mixin to latest version:
- Update the datasource template variable label to 'Data Source'
# 0.0.1 - October 2021
* Initial releaseCost
By connecting your Envoy instance to Grafana Cloud, you might incur charges. To view information on the number of active series that your Grafana Cloud account uses for metrics included in each Cloud tier, see Active series and dpm usage and Cloud tier pricing.
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