Prometheus is a monitoring and alerting framework that collects, organizes, and stores performance metrics. When it is used with a visualization tool like Grafana, the data it collects provides operational visibility into the performance of your HCI system. It is enabled by default after deployment.
To learn more, refer to the official Prometheus documentation.
Viewing metrics
To access Prometheus:
- From within Workflow Designer or Search app, click the question mark icon.
- Click Applications.
- Click Prometheus.
- Optionally, you can access Prometheus directly from your browser:
http://prometheus.<hostname>
Configuring Prometheus
To customize your Prometheus configuration, you can use the Admin panel within Workflow Designer.
To access these configuration options:
- Open Workflow Designer.
- On the left-hand side of the page, click the Admin panel.
Searching metrics by job name
You can search for the exposed metrics of third-party HCI components.
To do this:
- In the search bar, use the following format: {job='<job_name>'}The following is a list of the available job_name values:
- cassandra
- elasticsearch
- ingress-nginx-controller
- kafka
- keycloak
- solr
- spark-executors
- zookeeper
- Click Execute.