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DimitriVanoverbeke

What We Learned Integrating Grafana and With PrometheusWhileBuildingPerconaMonitoringandManagement

March2nd,2018GrafanaconEU2018

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Apologiesupfront

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Percona’sPurpose

ToChampionUnbiasedOpenSourceDatabase

SoluDons

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Percona

Wearenotweatherexperts

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Meaning•  WeProvideSoluDons(Support,ConsulDng,Training,Remote

DBA)forOpenSourceDatabases•  AllSoLwareWeReleaseis100%FreeandOpenSource•  HelpingCustomerstoAvoidSoLwareVendorLock-In•  ProvidingOpenSourceAlternaDvestothe“Enterprise”

SoLwareediDons

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•  Commercial•  CloudOnly•  DoItYourself

•  MySQLEnterpriseMonitor•  MongoDBOpsManager

StateofOpenSourceDatabaseMonitoring

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•  100%FreeandOpenSource•  WorksInandoutofthe

Cloud•  Deployin15minutes•  PurposeBuiltforOpen

SourceDatabaseMonitoring•  ForDevelopersandDBAs

PerconaMonitoringandManagement

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TheMainQuesDonHowtobuildGreatSoLwarewithSmallTeam?

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Youcandoit!•  WorkingtogetherwithOpenSourceCommunity

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Wechose

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Reasons•  LargeCommunity•  DesignedasanExtensiblePlacorm•  VeryResponsiveDevelopmentTeam•  PermissiveLicense•  MembersofCloudNaDveCompuDngFoundaDon•  ModernTechnologySupport

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OurInnovaDonFocus•  QueriesarenotonlyMetrics•  SimplifyDeployment(easydeployment)•  PowerfulDashboards

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WhatQueriesareCausingtheLoad

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WhyAretheyCausingthisLoad

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HowtoImprovetheirPerformance

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IntegraDngwithGrafana•  UsingGreatlyDesignedGrafanaDateRangeSelector•  GrafanaHostSelector•  GrafanaCross-DashboardLinks•  IntegraDonDonethroughIFRAME

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SimplifyDeployment•  DeployingMulDplePrometheusExportersisHard•  CustomAgentisusedforQueryFuncDons•  Packageeverythingtosingle“agent”package•  pmm-adminaddmysql

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IntegraDonwithCloud(AWS)•  AutomaDcallySearchandDiscoverSupportedInstances•  AnotherCustomGrafanaPanel

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PowerfulDashboards

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DashboardLearningExperience•  GreatDashboardAPI•  FantasDcsupportforDashboardVersioning•  CanuseIDfordashboardidenDficaDon,notname•  FantasDcTemplaDngEngine•  UsingBothRepeaDngrowsandRepeatedColumns

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UsingRepeatedRows

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UsingRepeatedPanels

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UseTagstobuildoutNavigaDonMenu

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Challenges

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AlerDng•  HowtouseAlerDnginmulD-serverenvironments•  WanttoalertonServiceratherthanindividualserver•  Want“visual”alertsintegratedwithGrafana•  UseGrafanaAlertsorbuildappforPrometheusAlerts?

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AnnotaDons•  WantannotaDonstobeenteredbyuser•  Butwantthemtoappearonthe“similar”panelseverywhere•  Howtodefinesuch“similar”panels?

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SingleStat•  NeedfixedYmaxvalueforSinglestatdashboardtobeher

visualizepercents•  Lookingtocontributepatch

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DynamicResoluDon•  WehavedifferentdatascrapedwithdifferentresoluDon•  Somedatais1secondresoluDon(statusvariables)•  Otheris60secresoluDon(variables,tableinformaDon)•  UsercanchoosetheirownresoluDonbasedonoverhead•  Howtoalignitonthesamegraphs?•  Makedatatotallyzoomable

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DynamicResoluDon•  GrafanaSupports“minimumresoluDon”

•  HardtomanagefordynamicuserconfiguraDon•  PrometheusFuncDonsareverystrict

•  “donotinventanydata•  rate()[1s]WillreturnNULLnotfinding2datapoints

•  Useuglyhacksofar•  Rate()[$interval]orirate()[5m]•  GivesbestavailableresoluDon

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BeherselecDonforAutoInterval•  AutoResoluDoniscomputed•  Intervalselectedmaybe“onedatapointfor2.2minutes”•  Wouldbegreattosetittofixedsetofintervals•  1s;5s;1min;5min;1h…

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SAVE THE DATE!

Learn More about Using PMM in Practice!

www.perconalive.com

April 23-25, 2018 Santa Clara Convention Center

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ThankYou!