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I think we already have a running grafana instance that can be used for the time being (tools team instance), I'll ping okurz to get details on how to access it

yes, we have an instance https://stats.openqa-monitor.qa.suse.de/ running on the VM "openqa-monitor" on qamaster. The accounts on the grafana server are manually maintained. You are welcome to try to login. Then I should be able to add a role to your account(s). Otherwise maybe I need to add the account(s) first. Correction: accounts are managed using LDAP but were missing from salt, fixed with https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/merge_requests/336 Anyone with a SUSE LDAP entry can login. After login I can add corresponding roles to your account(s). Grafana dashboards can be created in the webUI. To properly manage them after initial experimentation we should provision the dashboards same as we do for openQA. For this you can export the dashboards to JSON over the webUI and save them in gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/tree/master/openqa/monitoring/grafana and mention new files in https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/blob/master/openqa/monitoring/grafana.sls#L5

As these metrics are not directly related to openQA though I think another instance might be more suited. I might be able to setup something and will inform you in this case.

There is a test instance of grafana available now on http://1c036.qa.suse.de:3000/ . Use the username "admin" and password "susetesting" to create your own users and then feel free to play around and do whatever you want and can with grafan. The data is not-persistent and no guarantees on uptime given :)

EDIT: Btw, there also exists https://grafana.com/signup/cloud/select-org so you can just create grafana instances yourself for trying out as you want to query data from a public issue tracker or github for testing.

I cannot connect to the instance via SSH ssh jrauch@1c036.qa.suse.de -p 3000 after I created that user
However all the tutorials tell me to use the grafana-cli to install the JSON plugin
Am I overlooking something or is this supposed to work differently?

Normally servers listen on one port with only one service :) port 3000 is http, not ssh. You can login over the webui and install plugins there, that should suffice.

I can find neither under data sources nor under plugins a JSON plugin (only on the grafana hompeage where it suggests the CLI) that's why I tried it via SSH

I've set up a grafana instance for testing at http://10.162.168.44:3000, using admin/susetesting as credentials

if you want to setup a grafana instance locally real quick something like this should suffice: podman run --rm -it -p 3000:3000 -v my_grafana_dir:/var/lib/grafana grafana/grafana . this will export your folder my_grafana_dir into the container so that you can also experiment freely with plugins, etc. . We can also install plugins on our production instance but we should test it first before you add it to salt like in https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/blob/master/openqa/monitoring/grafana.sls#L92

btw, what are the plans with the still existing but still shutdown VM qsfu.qa.suse.de?

The script is basically done, maybe I need to catch some exceptions:
https://github.com/DrMullings/Scripts-Snippets-Stuff/blob/master/Kanban/TimesToGrafana.py

Grafan with artificial datapoints:
http://10.162.168.44:3000/dashboard/new?editPanel=2&orgId=1&from=1597369422583&to=1597412622585

New Dashboard
http://10.162.168.44:3000/d/tNDpAgNGz/from-progress?orgId=1&from=now-30m&to=now

Doings: Run it on the productive instance and group by project

tjyrinki_suse wrote:

Adjusting to the new squad structure, correct if wrong.

Hello, QE-performance squad is responsible for SLES performance and sap hana performance testing.
For this issue, could anyone help me to understand the background. If not SLES or sap hana performance related, then it should be moved to proper squad.

Hello,

this does not belong to QA Performance as this was an own side project (QA metrics) last year.
From my point of view we can even close it, as the work described is done.
If you need to know more about the metrics project you can ask Santi or Ralf