Using a small python script we can liberate data from the “Analysis” page of prism element and send it to prometheus, where we can combine cluster metrics with other data and view them all on some nice Grafana dashboards.
Overview For a fun afternoon project, how about a retro prometheus exporter using Apache/nginx, cgi-bin and bash!? About prometheus format A Prometheus exporter simply has to return a page with metric names and metric values in a particular format like below. When you configure prometheus via prometheus.yml you’re telling prometheus to visit a particular IP:Port […]
Using Nutanix API with prometheus push-gateway. Many customers would like to view their cluster metrics alongside existing performance data using Prometheus/Grafana Currently Nutanix does not provide a native exporter for Prometheus to use as a datasource. However we can use the prometheus push-gateway and a simple script which pulls from the native APIs to get […]