Metrics and their visualisation#
In this page we'll cover how to enable metrics and how to use Grafana and Prometheus to help you visualize these real-time metrics concerning the Portal node.
Enable metrics in the Nimbus Portal client#
To enable metrics run the Nimbus Portal client with the --metrics flag:
The address can be changed with the --metrics-address and --metrics-port options.
This provides only a snapshot of the current metrics. In order track the metrics over time and to also visualise them one can use for example Prometheus and Grafana.
Visualisation through Prometheus and Grafana#
The steps on how to set up metrics visualisation with Prometheus and Grafana is explained in this guide.
A Nimbus Portal specific dashboard can be found here.
This is the dashboard used for our Nimbus Portal network fleet.
In order to use it locally, you will have to remove the
{job="nimbus-fluffy-metrics"} part from the instance and container
variables queries in the dashboard settings. Or they can also be changed to a
constant value.
The other option would be to remove those variables and remove their usage in each panel query.