Grafana Enterprise Metrics

Grafana Enterprise Metrics (GEM) is a commercial offering based on the open-source project Mimir. The commercial offering allows you to deploy a higly-scalable, simple, and reliable metrics cluster in your own data center. This app plugin gives you an easy way to manage your metrics cluster.

Features

• Tenant management Easily scale up to hundreds of metrics tenants on a single Metrics Enterprise cluster.
• Access policies and tokens Fully control and visualize who has access to what.
• Ring health Give an overview on the current status of the various service rings in the cluster.

Dashboards

• Self-monitoring GEM includes the ability to directly record self-monitoring metrics to allow you to easily monitor the health and stability of GEM itself. A set of self-monitoring dashboards is made available, using GEM's self-monitoring metrics to help monitor GEM system health.
• Cardinality management GEM provides the ability to understand the cardinality of your metrics and labels using cardinality management dashboards to help visualize and explore the data from the cardinality management API.

Configuration

After the plugin has been installed into your Grafana instance, enable and initialize it:

1. Navigate to Administration > Plugins and data > Plugins
2. Select the Grafana Enterprise Metrics app from the list of plugins.
3. If an alert indicates that this app plugin is not enabled, enable the plugin by clicking on the Enable button. The alert text will indicate where it can be found.
4. Ensure that the Connection settings section is filled out using the bootstrap token for your GEM, and the corresponding URL where the cluster can be accessed by the Grafana instance.
5. Start using the Grafana Enterprise Metrics app plugin.