Grafana dashboards
Altinity.Cloud uses Grafana as its default monitoring tool. You can access Grafana from the Monitoring section of a cluster panel:
Figure 1 - The Monitoring section of the cluster panel
Clicking the View in Grafana link displays the following menu:
Figure 2 - The Grafana monitoring menu
We’ll go through those menu items next. If you’d like to jump to a particular Grafana view, click any of these links:
The Cluster Metrics view
Selecting Cluster Metrics opens this Grafana dashboard in another browser tab:
Figure 3 - The Cluster Metrics dashboard
Cluster metrics include things like the number of bytes and rows inserted into databases in the ClickHouse cluster, merges, queries, connections, and memory / CPU usage.
The System Metrics view
Selecting System Metrics opens this Grafana dashboard in another browser tab:
Figure 4 - The System Metrics dashboard
System metrics include things like CPU load, OS threads and processes, network traffic for each network connection, and activity on storage devices.
The Queries view
Selecting Queries opens this Grafana dashboard in another browser tab:
Figure 5 - The Queries dashboard
The Queries dashboard includes information about your most common queries, slow queries, failed queries, and the queries that used the most memory.
The Logs view
Selecting Logs opens this Grafana dashboard in another browser tab:
Figure 6 - The Logs dashboard
The Logs dashboard shows all of the log messages as well as the frequency of messages over time. You can add a query to the Logs visualization to filter the view for particular messages.