TDengine

Grafana Plugin for TDengine

• Usage
  • Add Data Source
  • Import Dashboard
  • Alert Feature
• Monitor TDengine Database with TDengine Data Source Plugin
  • TDinsight
• Docker Stack
• Dashboards

TDengine is open-sourced big data platform under GNU AGPL v3.0, designed and optimized for the Internet of Things (IoT), Connected Cars, Industrial IoT, and IT Infrastructure and Application Monitoring, developed by TDengine.

TDengine data source plugin is developed for Grafana. This document explains how to install and configure the data source plugin, and use it as a time-series database. We'll take a look at the data source options, variables, querying, and other options specific to this data source.

Usage

At first, please refer to Add a data source for instructions on how to add a data source to Grafana. Note that, only users with the organization admin role can add data sources.

Add Data Source

Point to Configurations -> Data Sources menu and then Add data source button.

Search and choose TDengine.

If TDengine is not in the list, please check the installation instructions for allowing loading unsigned plugins.

Configure TDengine data source.

Save and test it, it should say 'TDengine Data source is working'.

Import Dashboard

Point to + / Create - import (or /assets/import url).

Now you can import dashboard with JSON file or grafana dashboard id (please make sure your network is public to https://grafana.com).

Here is the first grafana dashboard you want to use for TDengine, the grafana dashboard id is 15146.

After load:

After import:

Alert Feature

Now TDengine data source plugin provides basic alert feature support by backend plugin since version 3.1.0. But it has some known limits currently:

1. The sql statement only supports two variables: $from and $to.
2. When using grafana's alert function, you must use SQL as the Type option. That means, arithmetic expression will not work as you expected for alert.
3. In addition, only ALIAS BY and INPUT SQL are valid. So alert does not work if you require the time-shift feature.

We've published a dashboard (15155) for you to understand how alert working.

Here is the details:

First, you should have a notification channel, if no, add a new one in http://localhost:3000/alerting/notification/new(here we use AlertManager for test, we also provides a webhook example here, in webhook/ directory)

Second, set the alert query in panel like this:

Config the alert rule and notifications:

Test it with Test rule button, it should return firing: true:

In alert manager dashboard, you could see the alert:

Monitor TDengine Database with TDengine Data Source Plugin

See How to Monitor TDengine Cluster with Grafana for the details.

TDinsight

TDinsight is a simple monitoring solution for TDengine database. See TDinsight README for the details.

Docker Stack

For a quick look and test, you can use docker-compose to start a full Grafana + AlertManager + Alert Webhook stack:

docker-compose up -d

Services:

• Grafana: http://localhost:3000
• AlertManager: http://localhost:9093, in docker it's http://alertmanager:9010/sms
• Webhook: http://localhost:9010/sms, in docker it's http://webhook:9010/sms

Dashboards

You can get other dashboards in the examples directory, or search in grafana with TDengine datasource https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/?orderBy=downloads&direction=desc&dataSource=tdengine-datasource .

Here is a short list:

• 15146: Multiple TDengines Monitoring Dashboard
• 15155: TDengine Alert Demo
• 15167: TDinsight

You could open a pr to add one if you want to share your dashboard with TDengine community, we appreciate your contribution!