July / August 2016
Beginning this month, Tech OnTap highlights popular discussion threads appearing in the NetApp Technical Community. In this month’s discussion, Christopher Madden, NetApp IT enterprise architect, shares his Graphite/Grafana Quick Start Installation Guide and fields dozens of questions from community members.
As Christopher writes: “... NetApp Harvest is a data collector that fetches a wide set of performance metrics from NetApp cDOT and 7-mode storage systems, and capacity info from Unified Manager 6, and posts it to an open-source Graphite metrics server. It also imports 19 dashboards containing over 500 graphs into Grafana to make viewing it all a snap...” read the entire blog post.
For more information:
Video: NetApp Advanced Performance Monitoring
Download the Graphite/Grafana Quick Start Installation Guide
Or, to meet the experts in person, attend these Insight sessions at Las Vegas (Sept 26-29) or Berlin (Nov 14-17):
62051-2 - Open Source Monitoring Using Harvest, Graphite and Grafana
59851-2 - Monitoring Performance Using NetApp OnCommand Performance Manager and API Extensions