I am trying to build the InfluxDB + Grafana + JMeter dashboard.
I am using InfluxDB 0.10, Grafana 2.6 and JMeter 2.13.
Backend Listener
My backend Listener looks good. I have listed a few names in the Sampler's List.
When I try to create graphs for the Sampler's I am unable to.
I also tried the Grafana Dashboard Generator, but still unable to create graphs for the individual Sampler's.
Any suggestions.
First check if Jmeter is shipping data in InfluxDB by running DB commands.
Related
The connection to InfluDb is correct, I can connect via CLI and I can send Jmeter data to InfluxDb correctly, I can even see it in influxDb, but Grafana Cloud does not plot graphs of InfluDb data.
I've researched everything and I can't find a way to debug to understand what's going wrong.
InfluxDB working correctly:
Grafana Data Source Settings:
I would add a Metric in use Grafana, in a ruby project.
What are the parameters?, What gem can I use?
Are there a manual?
You should first look into Datasources for Grafana. http://docs.grafana.org/features/datasources/ Datasources are the Programs Grafana can interact with to generate a Graph so you need to install one of them on some device. Grafana itself does not store any data, it "just" creates queries to a Datasource and renders the data.
There are a lot of possible Datasources for Grafana as you can see. Commonly used are Graphite (my favourite) and InfluxDB (easy setup) but a standard SQL could also be the way to go for you. When researching the possible Datasources you can also search for Ruby Gems. I found one for InfluxDB, maintained by Influxdata itself https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-ruby
I read the documentation , though I would like to gain more knowledge and usage of Influx DB how much worth before start using.
Can some one explain in detail on the below questions.
1.What is the use of Influx Db backed listener in jmeter.
2.What is the difference Influx Db backed listener Vs Graphs Generator?
3.What are steps involved installation and configuration of Influx Database on Windows?
4.Along with the Influx Db do we need to install and configure anything else?
5.How can we send the whole dashboard to the team generated from the Influx db.
6.I appreciate If you provide the detailed steps involved from #1 to # 5.
Thanks,
Raj
InfluxDB is a time-series db (a light-weight db used to store time dependant data such as a Performance Test).
Using InfluxDB along with Grafana you can monitor certain test metrics live during a JMeter test and can also configure other system metrics to be collected and monitored (cpu/network/memory).
To store data into InfluxDB, you need to configure the Graphite configuration within JMeter (see Real-Time results). Then you can add a Backend listener to throw this into the DB.
For InfluxDB installation on Windows read this answer.
As for the Dashboard, I guess you need to use Grafana to see the expected test live metrics in a graphical format.
I installed graphite web, graphite-cyanite and configured cyanite. Then created the metric keyspace and table in my cassandra cluster as suggested in cyanite documentation and I am able to successfully insert data into metric table. Then I went ahead and installed grafana and elastic search and configured them by adding the below index to cyanite.yaml.
index:
use: "io.cyanite.es_path/es-rest"
index: "my_paths" #defaults to "cyanite_paths"
url: "http://myhost:9200"
chan_size: 1000 # defaults to 1000
batch_size: 1000 # defaults to 1000
Now I am lost with my options on how to proceed to retrieve the metric data from my cassandra cluster/elasticsearch to display the graphs on Grafana. Please advise.
Grafana integrates with Graphite via the graphite web api.
Sinces you mentioned that you installed graphite-web. Configure a grafana graphite data source and specify the url of your graphite-web instance:
http://docs.grafana.org/installation/#graphite-elasticsearch-setup-example
I’m trying to install grafana to work with OpenTSDB datasource. I’d like to know, what should I do to install it without elasticsearch?
I'm using grafana with Influxdb and I'm not using elasticsearch.
Grafana 2 is out in beta and I've been using that in production for a while. Grafana 2 now has its own data store, which either uses MySQL or SQLite. But you can always use Elasticsearch as well. You can read more about it here
Update: Stable version of Grafana 2 is now out, and it just works.
Grafana is a frontend, you will need some kind of database to store values and configuration in. I just grabbed the .tar.gz file from grafana's downloads page, created a config.js and pointed it at my influxdb server. No elasticsearch here, either.
You might want to take a look at gofana which will allow you to run Grafana without Elasticsearch. It's a self-contained binary that allows you to store dashboards on the filesystem and not in Elasticsearch or InfluxDB. It also supports HTTPS and basic authentication.
Note: I'm the author of gofana.