prometheus-redistimeseries-adapter VS Grafana

Prometheus remote storage adapter for RedisTimeSeries# In the RedisTimeSeries organization you can find projects that help you integrate RedisTimeSeries with other tools, including Prometheus and Grafana. The Prometheus remote storage adapter for RedisTimeSeries is available and the project is hosted over at https://github.com/RedisTimeSeries/prometheus-redistimeseries-adapter. It’s basically a read/write adapter to use RedisTimeSeries as a backend database. RedisTimeSeries Adapter receives Prometheus metrics via the remote write, and writes to Redis with the RedisTimeSeries module.

Integration: It's not just Grafana! RedisTimeSeries also integrates with Prometheus and Telegraf. However, there is no Kafka connector at the time this blog post was written - this would a great add-on!

Monitoring application logs is a crucial aspect of the software development and deployment lifecycle. In this post, we'll delve into the process of observing logs generated by Docker container applications operating within HashiCorp Nomad. With the aid of Grafana, Vector, and Loki, we'll explore effective strategies for log analysis and visualization, enhancing visibility and troubleshooting capabilities within your Nomad environment.

To help us visualize these scenarios, we'll build a Grafana Dashboard so we can follow along.

Visualization and Analysis: Choose a tool with intuitive and customizable dashboards, charts, and visualizations. A question to ask is, "Are the visualization features of this tool user-friendly and adaptable to our team's specific needs?" Tools like Grafana and Kibana provide powerful visualization capabilities.

Prometheus: Open-source monitoring system. Often used together with Grafana.

Grafana

Yes I'm aware that Grafana is open source but the method I used to find the API endpoints is far quicker than digging through hundreds of files in a codebase I'm not familiar with.

So, you will add one last container to allow us to visualize this data: Grafana, an open-source analytics and visualization platform that allows us to see traces and metrics simply. You can set Grafana to read data from both Tempo and Prometheus by setting them as datastores with the following grafana.datasource.yaml config file:

In example above, we use 2 additional parameters: code (HTTP response code) and page (page identifier), which provide detailed statistics. For example, you can build such graphs in Grafana: