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02. 11. 2022 Mirko Morandini ITOA, NetEye

Creating Compelling Stacked Bar Charts with Grafana

Grafana is an open source data visualization application that is widely used for displaying interactive monitoring and service dashboards. It focuses on a high-performance visualization of time series data, such as network throughput, access time, or CPU performance data. For this, it connects to specific time series databases such as InfluxDB, but also to common…

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27. 05. 2022 Alessandro Romboli ITOA, NetEye

The Flux Language Inside ITOA

ITOA ITOA is the NetEye component which represents time series data using the Grafana graphics engine. Data is usually collected by Telegraf agents and stored into an InfluxDB specialized non-relational database. Flux In order to manipulate the time series data, Grafana usually adopted a relational language: InfluxQL. The relational approach has had a number of…

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19. 09. 2021 Rocco Pezzani ITOA, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Understanding Instability in a Monitored Environment

Whenever a new monitoring project gets underway, a consultant discusses with the customer about almost any related topic: what needs to be monitored, how to monitor it, when to implement it, how to represent performance data, etc. Based on customer needs and desires, any sort of implementation strategy can be planned, but almost all of…

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06. 07. 2021 Lorenzo Candeago ITOA

Continuous Deployment for Grafana Dashboards using Jsonnet and Jenkins, Part 2

In my previous blog post, I introduced our scenario: in a private cloud context, we want to deploy a dashboard for multiple clients created using Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf for SQL performance monitoring. We saw how to write a Grafana dashboard programmatically using Jsonnet and upload it to Grafana using the Grafana API. In this…

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06. 07. 2021 Lorenzo Candeago ITOA

Continuous Deployment of Grafana Dashboards Using Jsonnet and Jenkins, Part 1

Say we want to monitor the disk latency of SQL Servers or other Windows Performance Counters in a private cloud context, and plot the results for users of our performance management platform who likely work in different companies. InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana are the right tools to achieve this, and with the power of Flux,…

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23. 06. 2021 Ajay Sharma Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.18

We fixed an analytics bug where multiple organization and team were not syncing properly in grafana when users were logging in simultaneously. For NetEye 4.18 we updated the following packages: icingaweb2-module-analytics, icingaweb2-module-analytics-autosetup to version 1.39.4-1

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28. 05. 2021 Juergen Vigna Contribution, ITOA, NetEye

Monitoring Host Availability inside Grafana

A frequent request I get is how to view the availability of hosts and/or services within a Grafana dashboard. Here I demonstrate how to do this for host availability. To implement this, we first create a new table in our MariaDB on NetEye. I’ll call this table host_daily_sla and put it in the pre-existing reporting…

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25. 03. 2021 Valentina Da Rold Development, ITOA, NetEye

How to Customize a Grafana Component

I’ve been working with Grafana since 2017, when I started as a Frontend Developer here at Wuerth Phoenix.I typically take care of the customization of the Grafana User Interface, with the goal of reflecting the NetEye look and feel inside Grafana, aka the ITOA module. I’ve already written about a simple way to customize the…

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23. 12. 2020 Stefano Bruno NetEye, Unified Monitoring

The NagVis module: Adding a Grafana Panel on Mouse-over

Hi everyone, in this article I want to tell you about the NagVis module and how we’re going to customize a template so that it can allow us to modify the information displayed during mouse-over (hover). Basically, what we’ll try to achieve will be to preview the performance graphs written on Influx via an additional…

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27. 03. 2020 Alessandro Romboli APM, NetEye

Monitoring a JBoss Application Server

Scenario JBoss Application Server (JBoss AS) is an open-source, cross-platform Java application server developed by JBoss, a division of Red Hat, Inc. JBoss AS is an open-source implementation of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) that is used for implementing Java applications and other Web-based applications. Being a Java web-based application, it’s important to keep it…

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30. 12. 2019 Stefano Bruno ITOA, NetEye

Burstable Billing Bandwidth Using NetEye

Within Internet provider companies, very often we are asked to calculate the amount of Internet bandwidth in order to bill any excess use of bandwidth to each customer. We decided to make this calculation completely customizable using NetEye together with the built-in tools Icinga2, InfluxDB and Grafana. Phase 1 Using an SNMP check, we measure…

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05. 08. 2019 Alessandro Romboli Asset Management, NetEye

Monitoring a Cisco Wireless Controller

Scenario Cisco WLC is widely used by many Enterprise Companies to manage their wireless networks due to its efficiency and advanced features. Its management web console has a wealth of configuration parameters, but it doesn’t offer a clear overview on what’s happening across the wireless network. Fortunately, a lot of real time information is available…

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02. 07. 2019 Damiano Chini Log-SIEM, NetEye

Proxy Authentication with Grafana 6.2

Until now, authentication of NetEye users on Grafana was achieved by means of session cookies, which were provided by the Grafana server when authenticating in Icinga Web 2. However, with the upgrade of Grafana from version 5.2 to version 6.2, we can no longer employ this authentication procedure because Grafana has discontinued the use of…

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17. 04. 2019 Tobias Goller NetEye, Predictive Analysis, Unified Monitoring

MSSQL Performance Monitoring: The Sequel

Due to the very positive customer feedback on our extended MSSQL performance monitoring article, I would like to briefly highlight this functionality. We have been implementing systems for MSSQL performance monitoring for a long time, offered either as a managed IT service, or on-premise depending on the requirements. Previously, we recorded and evaluated counters such…

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08. 04. 2019 Alessandro Romboli ITOA, NetEye

Anonymous Access for Wall Dashboards

Scenario A lot of people who have a NetEye monitoring system will set up a Wall Dashboard to display the status of their most important services and vital performance data. If these Dashboards are built using Grafana (in the ITOA menu in NetEye 4), you will encounter the problem that you will need to bypass…

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