Integrating with Graphite and Grafana

Graphite is a software for monitoring health and integrity of computer system components. Monitoring is performed based on data statistics for certain time periods. Graphite can receive that data from PT NAD and record it to the disk to build monitoring charts in Grafana.

Grafana is a web interface for creating monitoring graphs and for analyzing metrics. Grafana can receive monitoring data from various sources, including Graphite. If PT NAD is integrated with Graphite, the Grafana interface is used instead of the standard Graphite interface.

In a multiserver configuration, you must configure the integration on the main server.

To set up PT NAD integration with Graphite and Grafana:Install packages on which the ptdpistat-server module installation and operation depends:

sudo apt install -y apt-transport-https software-properties-common wget libcairo2

Go to the ptnad-distrib subdirectory of the directory with the unpacked distribution package.For example:

cd /home/user/ptnad-installer/ptnad-distrib

Install Grafana:

sudo dpkg -i grafana_*.deb

Install the ptdpistat-server module:

sudo dpkg -i ptdpistat-server*.deb

PT NAD integration with Graphite and Grafana is set up.

You can now sign in to the Grafana web interface at https://<address of the PT NAD web interface>:3000, for example https://ptnad.example:3000.

Monitoring PT NAD in Grafana

Default username and password: admin.

For security reasons, change the standard password immediately after the first login.