30. 11. 2024
Business Service Monitoring, NetEye, Unified Monitoring
Scenario
NetEye4 provides a graphical engine to represent time series data stored into Influx database: Grafana engine accessible through the ITOA menu on the left side.
Grafana is very powerful: its dashboards are built up of panels. A lot of them are native into Grafana, but there is a huge public library of panels developed by the community:
https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/panel-plugins/
These additional panels could be imported into NetEye4 to create Grafana dashboards with special data rendering.
Multistat Panel
A very famous additional Panel was Multistat Panel
https://github.com/michaeldmoore/michaeldmoore-multistat-panel
This panel was able to render the instant value of several metrics at the same time.
The graphical rendering was very powerful:
And also grouped and colored:
Grafana 11 issue
Unfortunately, Grafana 11 drops the support of AngularJS library causing a huge number of panels to fail:
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/angular_deprecation/angular-plugins/
On the article, there is a list of panels that won’t work anymore, including Multistat. For each of them there is a possible alternative, if existing.
An alternative for Multistat
Fortunately, Grafana added a brand-new native panel named Bar chart:
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/panels-visualizations/visualizations/bar-chart/
This panel is very similar to the old Multistat so, with a little of effort, it’s almost easy to configure a similar panel
Each case of incompatibility must be deeply analyzed in order to find the proper solution or workaround
Alessandro Romboli
Site Reliability Engineer at Würth Phoenix
My name is Alessandro and I joined Würth-Phoenix early in 2013. I have over 20 years of experience in the IT sector: For a long time I've worked for a big Italian bank in a very complex environment, managing the software provisioning for all the branch offices. Then I've worked as a system administrator for an international IT provider supporting several big companies in their infrastructures, providing high availability solutions and disaster recovery implementations. I've joined the VMware virtual infrastructure in early stage, since version 2: it was one of the first productive Server Farms in Italy. I always like to study and compare different technologies: I work with Linux, MAC OSX, Windows and VMWare. Since I joined Würth Phoenix, I could also expand my experience on Firewalls, Storage Area Networks, Local Area Networks, designing and implementing complete solutions for our customers. Primarily, I'm a system administrator and solution designer, certified as VMware VCP6 DCV, Microsoft MCP for Windows Server, Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, SQL Server, SharePoint. Besides computers, I also like photography, sport and trekking in the mountains.
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