Grafana Dashboard Creation

Configuring Grafana Datasource

Once the environment is up and running, login to the Grafana UI:
http://appliance_ip_address:3000

Then navigate to Grafana -> Data sources

  • On the next screen, click “Add new data source”
  • Then select Prometheus

Configuring Dashboard Metric Charts:

Then navigate to Home -> Dashboards -> New -> New Dashboard

  • Click “Add visualization”
  • Select “Prometheus” as the DataSource
  • Click Metrics Explorer-> Open
  • Select a metric (example below selects NutanixCluster_stats_avg_io-Latency_usecs)
  • Then click “Run queries”
  • Under “Panel Options” give the chart an appropriate title
  • The “Save dashboard”

Customizing Legend Titles

  • To modify the legend titles, navigate to the “Overrides” section above the “Panel options Title” section
  • Select “Add field override” -> “Fields with name” -> “your cluster name” -> “Add override property” -> “Display name” -> “type cluster / legend entity name” -> “Save Dashboard”

Before Override:

After Override:

Operations to convert metrics

The exporter stats have default X & Y Axis values.  In this example IO Latency is in microseconds, this will get converted to milliseconds to better articulate what’s reported.  

Navigate back to your Dashboard and edit your visualization

  • Under “Metric” click “Operations”
  • Select “Binary operations” -> “Divide by scalar”
  • Enter “1000” as the “Value”
  • 1000 microseconds = 1ms, you can see the graph above has not yet been converted (or if it has you have serious performance issues! 😄)
  • Then click “Run queries”

A finished dashboard look example:

Demo Video Coming Soon