On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 10:12 AM Alexander Bartilla < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Simon, > > as far as I know you won't even be able to deploy prometheus instances via > the prometheus-operator in the openshift-monitoring namespace, as it's > namespaced through an argument in its deployment config. > You're correct. I meant deploying another Prometheus operator in a namespace you "own" which will deploy other Prometheus servers. > > But if you have another grafana dashboard deployed you should be able to > add the k8s-prometheus as a datasource. To get the credentials through > commandline run this command: > > oc get secret grafana-datasources -n openshift-monitoring -o yaml | grep > prometheus.yaml | cut -d':' -f2 | cut -d' ' -f2 | base64 -d > > Alexander > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 9:45 AM Simon Pasquier <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 6:27 PM Pavel Sapozhnikov >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hello folks >> > >> > We are using OpenShift 3.11 and monitoring that comes with that >> package. Our application pods expose prometheus endpoints and we are >> looking to dashboard our own metrics withing the Grafana that is in the >> monitoring project. >> > >> > So far what we've been seeing is that there's no way to even create a >> new Grafana dashboard and also I haven't been able to find any >> documentation on how to do it. It seems like the Grafana that is in >> monitoring project is locked down in some way. >> > >> > Perhaps that Grafana isn't meant to be edited like that because its a >> cluster Grafana? However, I see no harm in creating a new custom dashboard >> for our application. >> >> This. What runs in the openshift-monitoring namespace is dedicated for >> the cluster monitoring which is why the Grafana instance is read-only >> [1]. >> You can still leverage the Prometheus operator to deploy additional >> Prometheus instances (+ service monitors) in your namespace(s). >> There are plans to refine and improve this situation but nothing acted >> yet. >> Simon >> >> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652536 >> >> >> >> > >> > If this is the case, what that leaves us is installing our own >> prometheus and Grafana instances inside our project - we were hoping to >> leverage existing monitoring capabilities to look at our own custom metrics. >> > >> > If there's is documentation somewhere on how to create new Dashboards >> in included Grafana could anyone point us in a right direction please? >> > >> > Otherwise, could anyone address our expectations and recommend a good >> course of action. >> > >> > Thanks >> > Pavel >> > _______________________________________________ >> > users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.openshift.redhat.com/openshiftmm/listinfo/users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openshift.redhat.com/openshiftmm/listinfo/users >> > > > -- > > Alexander Bartilla > > IT-Consultant > > Cloudwerkstatt GmbH - Lassallestraße 7b – A-1020 Wien > > +43-660-8989058 > > [email protected] > > > *[image: id:[email protected]]* > > ------------------------------ > > Cloudwerkstatt GmbH - Lassallestraße 7b - A-1020 Wien - ATU68384759 - > FN408516i - Handelsgericht Wien > > >
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