Using IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge with Grafana

The IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge is a stand-alone Python application, which uses Grafana to display performance data. Grafana is an open source tool for visualizing time series and application metrics. It provides a powerful platform to create, explore, and share dashboards and data. .

IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge could be used for exploring the performance data on Grafana dashboards. The IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge emulates an openTSDB API, which is used by Grafana to set up and populate the graphs. The metadata received from IBM Spectrum Scale is used to create the Grafana graphs, and the data from IBM Spectrum Scale is used to populate these graphs. Two version of the IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge are now available. You can download the latest version of the IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge from the Prerequisite and Download page. For more information on the new version of the bridge, see New features of the IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge version 2

Figure 1. IBM Spectrum Scale integration framework for Grafana

Attention: The IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge is a separate component and not a part of the IBM Spectrum Scale standard package. It can be downloaded from IBM® developerWorks® Wiki. For more information on the Grafana software, see Grafana.

New features of the IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge version 2

The IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge version 2 has the following features:

The IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge version 2 is Python3 compatible.
The bridge query format is now compatible with the OpenTSDB API versions 2.2 and 2.3 that are necessary for using Grafana’s Nested Templating feature. For more information about nested templating, see Grafana's Nested Templating.
The IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge version 2 supports Grafana version 4.2.0 and above.
HTTPS(SSL) connection support via port 8443 is now available. For more information, see How to setup HTTPS(SSL) connection for the IBM Spectrum Scale Performance Monitoring Bridge.
The IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge version 2 has a built-in logging mechanism. For more information on the built in logging mechanism, see Deep-Dive Error Analysis. For information on other troubleshooting tips and the Chrome Dev Tools options, see the Problem Determination Guide.
New dashboard examples can be downloaded and imported from the Advanced Dashboards set package.

Note: Check the What's new page, or the README.txt file from the download package for a complete list of new features, changes, and bug fixes. For information about prerequisites to download the IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge, see the Prerequisite and Download page.