Viewing and analyzing the performance data with the IBM Storage Scale bridge for Grafana

IBM Storage Scale has built-in performance monitoring tool that collects metrics from various GPFS components. These metrics can provide you with a status overview and trends of the key performance indicators. You can view and analyze the collected performance data with Grafana, a third-party visualization software.

For using Grafana, you need a running Grafana instance and the IBM Storage Scale performance monitoring bridge for Grafana deployed on your IBM Storage Scale container native cluster. For more information, see IBM Storage Scale bridge for grafana repository in GitHub.

The IBM Storage Scale bridge for Grafana is an open source tool, available for free usage on IBM Storage Scale devices. It translates the IBM Storage Scale metadata and performance data collected by the IBM Storage Scale performance monitoring tool to query requests acceptable by the Grafana-integrated openTSDB plugin.

The IBM Storage Scale performance monitoring bridge for Grafana can be deployed automatically through the operator. For more information, see Grafana bridge.

For more information about setting up a Grafana instance for monitoring the IBM Storage Scale container native cluster, see Setup Grafana for monitoring a IBM Storage Scale container native cluster in a k8s OCP environment in GitHub documentation.