Traefik integration for Grafana Cloud
Traefik is a dynamic load balancer designed for ease of configuration, especially in dynamic environments. It supports automatic discovery of services, metrics, tracing, and has Let’s Encrypt support out of the box. Traefik provides a “ready to go” system for serving production traffic with these additions.
This integration includes 1 pre-built dashboard to help monitor and visualize Traefik metrics.
Before you begin
You need to enable the Prometheus metrics endpoint in your Traefik node. Please follow the official documentation.
Install Traefik integration for Grafana Cloud
- In your Grafana Cloud stack, click Connections in the left-hand menu.
- Find Traefik and click its tile to open the integration.
- Review the prerequisites in the Configuration Details tab and set up Grafana Agent to send Traefik 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 Traefik setup.
Post-install configuration for the Traefik integration
After enabling the metrics generation, instruct Grafana Agent to scrape your Traefik nodes.
Apollo exposes a /metrics 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/traefik
relabel_configs:
- replacement: '<your-instance-name>'
target_label: instance
static_configs:
- targets: ['localhost:8080']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 Traefik 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/traefik
relabel_configs:
- replacement: '<your-instance-name>'
target_label: instance
static_configs:
- targets: ['localhost:8080']
global:
scrape_interval: 60s
wal_directory: /tmp/grafana-agent-walDashboards
The Traefik integration installs the following dashboards in your Grafana Cloud instance to help monitor your system.
- Traefik
Service Stats Overview
Service Stats Filter
Metrics
The most important metrics provided by the Traefik integration, which are used on the pre-built dashboard, are as follows:
- traefik_entrypoint_requests_total
- traefik_service_request_duration_seconds_sum
- traefik_service_requests_total
Changelog
# 0.0.6 - 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.
# 0.0.5 - March 2023
* Fix errors rate calculation
# 0.0.4 - September 2022
* Update total calls panel
* Fix traefik panel's query with hardcoded value
* Add job variable refresh on time range (for faster dashboard update when very first metric comes to prometheus)
* Add negative offset for better calculation of total number of calls/error over dashboard's range
# 0.0.3 - September 2022
* Update dashboard panels descriptions.
# 0.0.2 - October 2021
* Update mixin to latest version:
- Update queries to use $__rate_interval
# 0.0.1 - July 2021
* Initial release.Cost
By connecting your Traefik 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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