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OpenSearch integration for Grafana Cloud

OpenSearch is an open-source project and a fork of Elasticsearch that provides a fully-featured and compatible alternative. It uses the same core technologies as Elasticsearch, including the Lucene search engine, and offers similar features such as distributed search, indexing, and analytics. This integration for Grafana Cloud allows users to monitor an OpenSearch clustered deployment with 3 separate dashboards for visualizing metric details at the cluster, node, and index levels.

This integration supports OpenSearch version 2.5.0+
This integration supports Prometheus exporter plugin for OpenSearch version 2.5.0.0+

This integration includes 12 useful alerts and 3 pre-built dashboards to help monitor and visualize OpenSearch metrics and logs.

Before you begin

In order for the integration to properly work, you must set up the Prometheus Exporter Plugin for OpenSearch.

Set up Prometheus Exporter Plugin for OpenSearch

To ensure compatibility, it is recommended that you refer to the Prometheus exporter plugins compatibility matrix and download the appropriate version based on your OpenSearch version.

You can find where to install the OpenSearch Prometheus exporter plugin by running:

sh

sudo find / -name opensearch-plugin

This should give a location like /usr/share/opensearch/bin/opensearch-plugin which you can then change directory into with cd /usr/share/opensearch.

The Prometheus Exporter for OpenSearch version 2.5.0 can be installed via:

sh

./bin/opensearch-plugin install https://github.com/aiven/prometheus-exporter-plugin-for-opensearch/releases/download/2.5.0.0/prometheus-exporter-2.5.0.0.zip

For more information on how to configure the Prometheus exporter plugin on each node, please refer to the Plugin Configuration documentation for further configuration details.

To validate the plugin is working correctly, Prometheus metrics should be available locally via curl:

sh

curl http://localhost:9200/_prometheus/metrics

If you are unable to collect Prometheus metrics, then the OpenSearch configuration needs to be updated. This can be achieved by editing /etc/opensearch/opensearch.yml config.

To get running quickly, add plugins.security.disabled: true to the bottom of the file. Once this is done, OpenSearch can be restarted with sudo systemctl restart opensearch. Validate that Prometheus metrics can be collected via curl.

Install OpenSearch integration for Grafana Cloud

1. In your Grafana Cloud stack, click Connections in the left-hand menu.
2. Find OpenSearch and click its tile to open the integration.
3. Review the prerequisites in the Configuration Details tab and set up Grafana Agent to send OpenSearch metrics and logs to your Grafana Cloud instance.
4. Click Install to add this integration’s pre-built dashboards and alerts to your Grafana Cloud instance, and you can start monitoring your OpenSearch setup.

Post-install configuration for the OpenSearch integration

After enabling the metrics generation, instruct the Grafana Agent to scrape your OpenSearch cluster. The Grafana Agent config is stored in /etc/grafana-agent.yaml.

Enable the integration by adding the suggested snippets to your agent configuration file.

If you want to show logs and metrics signals correlated in your dashboards as a single pane of glass, ensure the following:

• job and node label values must match for the OpenSearch integration and logs scrape config in your agent configuration file.
• job must be set to integrations/opensearch (already configured in the snippets).
• node label must be set to a value that uniquely identifies your OpenSearch node which is the same as an instance name on a single node.
• __path__ is the error log location, which is var/log/opensearch/opensearch.log by default (already configured in the snippets).

Make sure to change targets in the snippet according to your environment. The default port for OpenSearch targets is 9200.

On Linux, you will also need to add the grafana-agent user to the opensearch group to get logs. Run the following command to configure the user as required:

sh

sudo usermod -a -G opensearch grafana-agent

Configuration snippets for Grafana Agent

Below metrics.configs.scrape_configs, insert the following lines and change the URLs according to your environment:

yaml

    - job_name: integrations/opensearch
      metrics_path: /_prometheus/metrics
      relabel_configs:
        - replacement: '<your-instance-name>'
          target_label: node
      static_configs:
        - targets: ['<your-host-name>:9200']

Below logs.configs.scrape_configs, insert the following lines according to your environment.

yaml

    - job_name: integrations/opensearch
      static_configs:
        - targets:
          - localhost
          labels:
            job: integrations/opensearch
            node: '<your-instance-name>'
            __path__: /var/log/opensearch/opensearch.log

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 OpenSearch integration. This example also includes metrics that are sent to monitor your Grafana Agent instance.

yaml

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.
    - job_name: integrations/opensearch
      static_configs:
        - targets:
          - localhost
          labels:
            job: integrations/opensearch
            node: '<your-instance-name>'
            __path__: /var/log/opensearch/opensearch.log
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/opensearch
      metrics_path: /_prometheus/metrics
      relabel_configs:
        - replacement: '<your-instance-name>'
          target_label: node
      static_configs:
        - targets: ['<your-host-name>:9200']
  global:
    scrape_interval: 60s
  wal_directory: /tmp/grafana-agent-wal

Dashboards

The OpenSearch integration installs the following dashboards in your Grafana Cloud instance to help monitor your system.

• OpenSearch cluster overview
• OpenSearch node overview
• OpenSearch search and index overview

OpenSearch Cluster Overview Dashboard 1

OpenSearch Node Overview Dashboard 1

OpenSearch Search and Index Overview Dashboard 1

Alerts

The OpenSearch integration includes the following useful alerts:

Metrics

The most important metrics provided by the OpenSearch integration, which are used on the pre-built dashboards and Prometheus alerts, are as follows:

• opensearch_circuitbreaker_tripped_count
• opensearch_cluster_datanodes_number
• opensearch_cluster_nodes_number
• opensearch_cluster_pending_tasks_number
• opensearch_cluster_shards_active_percent
• opensearch_cluster_shards_number
• opensearch_cluster_status
• opensearch_cluster_task_max_waiting_time_seconds
• opensearch_fs_io_total_read_bytes
• opensearch_fs_io_total_write_bytes
• opensearch_fs_path_free_bytes
• opensearch_fs_path_total_bytes
• opensearch_index_fielddata_evictions_count
• opensearch_index_flush_total_count
• opensearch_index_flush_total_time_seconds
• opensearch_index_indexing_delete_current_number
• opensearch_index_indexing_index_count
• opensearch_index_indexing_index_current_number
• opensearch_index_indexing_index_failed_count
• opensearch_index_indexing_index_time_seconds
• opensearch_index_merges_current_size_bytes
• opensearch_index_merges_total_docs_count
• opensearch_index_merges_total_stopped_time_seconds
• opensearch_index_merges_total_throttled_time_seconds
• opensearch_index_merges_total_time_seconds
• opensearch_index_querycache_evictions_count
• opensearch_index_querycache_hit_count
• opensearch_index_querycache_memory_size_bytes
• opensearch_index_querycache_miss_number
• opensearch_index_refresh_total_count
• opensearch_index_refresh_total_time_seconds
• opensearch_index_requestcache_evictions_count
• opensearch_index_requestcache_hit_count
• opensearch_index_requestcache_memory_size_bytes
• opensearch_index_requestcache_miss_count
• opensearch_index_search_fetch_count
• opensearch_index_search_fetch_current_number
• opensearch_index_search_fetch_time_seconds
• opensearch_index_search_query_count
• opensearch_index_search_query_current_number
• opensearch_index_search_query_time_seconds
• opensearch_index_search_scroll_count
• opensearch_index_search_scroll_current_number
• opensearch_index_search_scroll_time_seconds
• opensearch_index_segments_memory_bytes
• opensearch_index_segments_number
• opensearch_index_shards_number
• opensearch_index_store_size_bytes
• opensearch_index_translog_operations_number
• opensearch_indices_indexing_index_count
• opensearch_indices_store_size_bytes
• opensearch_ingest_total_count
• opensearch_ingest_total_failed_count
• opensearch_ingest_total_time_seconds
• opensearch_jvm_bufferpool_number
• opensearch_jvm_bufferpool_total_capacity_bytes
• opensearch_jvm_bufferpool_used_bytes
• opensearch_jvm_gc_collection_count
• opensearch_jvm_gc_collection_time_seconds
• opensearch_jvm_mem_heap_committed_bytes
• opensearch_jvm_mem_heap_used_bytes
• opensearch_jvm_mem_nonheap_committed_bytes
• opensearch_jvm_mem_nonheap_used_bytes
• opensearch_jvm_threads_number
• opensearch_jvm_uptime_seconds
• opensearch_os_cpu_percent
• opensearch_os_mem_used_percent
• opensearch_os_swap_free_bytes
• opensearch_os_swap_used_bytes
• opensearch_threadpool_tasks_number
• opensearch_threadpool_threads_number
• opensearch_transport_rx_bytes_count
• opensearch_transport_server_open_number
• opensearch_transport_tx_bytes_count

Changelog

md

# 0.0.2 - August 2023

* Add regex filter for logs datasource

# 0.0.1 - May 2023

* Initial release

Cost

By connecting your OpenSearch 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.