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Blueflood

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Blueflood plugin for grafana

Plugin to use Blueflood or Rackspace Metrics as a datasouce with Grafana 3.x.

Pre-Requisites

This plugin requires graphite-api with Blueflood finder as a service. You can setup this by running the rackerlabs/graphite-api-blueflood-finder docker image as container. For more instructions on blueflood finder, refer Blueflood finder

Blueflood datasource

Blueflood is an open source multi-tenant, distributed metric processing system. Blueflood is capable of ingesting, rolling up and serving metrics at a massive scale. It is built on top of Apache Cassandra,

Rackspace metrics datasource

Rackspace Metrics is a multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS) product that offers a flexible and affordable platform for storing and serving time-series metrics. It provides a REST API for metrics ingestion and retrieval. Rackspace Metrics is built upon Blueflood.

Source code

This source code of this plugin is located at https://github.com/rackerlabs/blueflood-grafana. Contributions can be made to the original source code.

References

Installing Blueflood 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 Blueflood 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.