(Beta) Monitoring Mixin for Vitess

A set of Grafana dashboards, Prometheus rules and alerts for Vitess, packaged together in a reusable and extensible bundle.

🔁 Prerequisites

1. Go (programming language)

   • Install binaries using the official installer

   • Ensure GOPATH variable is set in your system. See instructions here. Here below there's a sample config:

     export GOPATH=$HOME/go
     export PATH="$GOPATH/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH"

2. Install the go tools: make tools, jb, jsonnet, jsonnetfmt, and promtool should now be in $GOPATH/bin.

3. Install the dependencies by running: jb install

ℹ️ How-to

Customize config.libsonnet based on your setup. Example: specify the dataSource name (default to Prometheus_Vitess). You can then generate:

• Prometheus alerts: $ make prometheus_alerts.yaml (Note: This files is empty because the current version of the mixin uses Grafana Alerts)

• Prometheus rules: $ make prometheus_rules.yaml

• Grafana dashboard: $ ENV='prod' make dashboards_out (Supported environments are dev and prod).

The prometheus_alerts.yaml and prometheus_rules.yaml file then need to passed to your Prometheus server, and the files in dashboards_out need to be imported into you Grafana server.

👩‍💻 Development

If you want to contribute please read Vitess mixin quickstart guide

📚 Useful links & further learning

• For more information about monitoring mixins, see this design doc.
• For more motivation, see "The RED Method: How to instrument your services" talk from CloudNativeCon Austin.