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The Monasca plugin has been deprecated and is no longer maintained.

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Monasca

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Monasca Datasource - A datasource for use with the OpenStack Monasca api.

For more information on Monasca see the Monasca documentation

When combined with Grafana Keystone authentication this datasource supports using login credentials to authenticate queries.

Without the Grafana Keystone auth, this datasource can be used by inserting a keystone token into the datasource. To get a keystone token download the python-openstackclient, source credentials and run openstack token issue.

Installing Monasca on Grafana Cloud:

For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.

Installing on a local Grafana:

For local instances, plugins are installed and updated via a simple CLI command. Plugins are not updated automatically, however you will be notified when updates are available right within your Grafana.

1. Install the Data Source

Use the grafana-cli tool to install Monasca from the commandline:

grafana-cli plugins install 

The plugin will be installed into your grafana plugins directory; the default is /var/lib/grafana/plugins. More information on the cli tool.

2. Configure the Data Source

Accessed from the Grafana main menu, newly installed data sources can be added immediately within the Data Sources section.

Next, click the Add data source button in the upper right. The data source will be available for selection in the Type select box.

To see a list of installed data sources, click the Plugins item in the main menu. Both core data sources and installed data sources will appear.