Use pre-created dashboards in Chronograf
Overview
Pre-created dashboards are delivered with Chronograf depending on which Telegraf input plugins you have enabled and are available from the Host List page. These dashboards, which are built in and not editable, include cells with data visualizations for metrics that are relevant to data sources you are likely to be using.
Note that these pre-created dashboards cannot be cloned or customized. They appear only as part of the Host List view and are associated with metrics gathered from a single host. Dashboard templates are also available and deliver a solid starting point for customizing your own unique dashboards based on the Telegraf plugins enabled and operate across one or more hosts. For details, see Dashboard templates.
Requirements
The pre-created dashboards automatically appear in the Host List page to the right of hosts based on which Telegraf input plugins you have enabled. Check the list below for applications that you are interested in using and make sure that you have the required Telegraf input plugins enabled.
Use pre-created dashboards
Pre-created dashboards are delivered in Chronograf installations and are ready to be used when you have the required Telegraf input plugins enabled.
To view a pre-created dashboard:
- Open Chronograf in your web browser and click Host List in the navigation bar.
- Select an application listed under Apps. By default, the system
app
should be listed next to a host listing. Other apps appear depending on the Telegraf input plugins that you have enabled. The selected application appears showing pre-created cells, based on available measurements.
Create or edit dashboards
Find a list of apps (pre-created dashboards) available to use with Chronograf below. For each app, you’ll find:
- Required Telegraf input plugins for the app
- JSON files included in the app
- Cell titles included in each JSON file
The JSON files for apps are included in the /usr/share/chronograf/canned
directory. Find information about the configuration option --canned-path
on the Chronograf configuration options page.
Enable and disable apps in your Telegraf configuration file (by default, /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf
). See Configuring Telegraf for details.
Apps (pre-created dashboards):
- apache
- consul
- docker
- elasticsearch
- haproxy
- iis
- influxdb
- kubernetes
- memcached
- mesos
- mysql
- nginx
- nsq
- phpfpm
- ping
- postgresql
- rabbitmq
- redis
- riak
- system
- varnish
- win_system
apache
Required Telegraf plugin: Apache input plugin
apache.json
- “Apache Bytes/Second”
- “Apache - Requests/Second”
- “Apache - Total Accesses”
consul
Required Telegraf plugin: Consul input plugin
consul_http.json
- “Consul - HTTP Request Time (ms)”
consul_election.json
- “Consul - Leadership Election”
consul_cluster.json
- “Consul - Number of Agents”
consul_serf_events.json
- “Consul - Number of serf events”
docker
Required Telegraf plugin: Docker input plugin
docker.json
- “Docker - Container CPU %”
- “Docker - Container Memory (MB)”
- “Docker - Containers”
- “Docker - Images”
- “Docker - Container State”
docker_blkio.json
- “Docker - Container Block IO”
docker_net.json
- “Docker - Container Network”
elasticsearch
Required Telegraf plugin: Elasticsearch input plugin
elasticsearch.json
- “ElasticSearch - Query Throughput”
- “ElasticSearch - Open Connections”
- “ElasticSearch - Query Latency”
- “ElasticSearch - Fetch Latency”
- “ElasticSearch - Suggest Latency”
- “ElasticSearch - Scroll Latency”
- “ElasticSearch - Indexing Latency”
- “ElasticSearch - JVM GC Collection Counts”
- “ElasticSearch - JVM GC Latency”
- “ElasticSearch - JVM Heap Usage”
haproxy
Required Telegraf plugin: HAProxy input plugin
haproxy.json
- “HAProxy - Number of Servers”
- “HAProxy - Sum HTTP 2xx”
- “HAProxy - Sum HTTP 4xx”
- “HAProxy - Sum HTTP 5xx”
- “HAProxy - Frontend HTTP Requests/Second”
- “HAProxy - Frontend Sessions/Second”
- “HAProxy - Frontend Session Usage %”
- “HAProxy - Frontend Security Denials/Second”
- “HAProxy - Frontend Request Errors/Second”
- “HAProxy - Frontend Bytes/Second”
- “HAProxy - Backend Average Response Time (ms)”
- “HAProxy - Backend Connection Errors/Second”
- “HAProxy - Backend Queued Requests/Second”
- “HAProxy - Backend Average Request Queue Time (ms)”
- “HAProxy - Backend Error Responses/Second”
iis
Required Telegraf plugin: Windows Performance Counters input plugin
win_websvc.json
- “IIS - Service”
influxdb
Required Telegraf plugin: InfluxDB input plugin
influxdb_database.json
- “InfluxDB - Cardinality”
influxdb_httpd.json
- “InfluxDB - Write HTTP Requests”
- “InfluxDB - Query Requests”
- “InfluxDB - Client Failures”
influxdb_queryExecutor.json
- “InfluxDB - Query Performance”
influxdb_write.json
- “InfluxDB - Write Points”
- “InfluxDB - Write Errors”
kubernetes
kubernetes_node.json
- “K8s - Node Millicores”
- “K8s - Node Memory Bytes”
kubernetes_pod_container.json
- “K8s - Pod Millicores”
- “K8s - Pod Memory Bytes”
kubernetes_pod_network.json
- “K8s - Pod TX Bytes/Second”
- “K8s - Pod RX Bytes/Second "
kubernetes_system_container.json
- “K8s - Kubelet Millicores”
- “K8s - Kubelet Memory Bytes”
Memcached (memcached
)
Required Telegraf plugin: Memcached input plugin
memcached.json
- “Memcached - Current Connections”
- “Memcached - Get Hits/Second”
- “Memcached - Get Misses/Second”
- “Memcached - Delete Hits/Second”
- “Memcached - Delete Misses/Second”
- “Memcached - Incr Hits/Second”
- “Memcached - Incr Misses/Second”
- “Memcached - Current Items”
- “Memcached - Total Items”
- “Memcached - Bytes Stored”
- “Memcached - Bytes Written/Sec”
- “Memcached - Evictions/10 Seconds”
mesos
Required Telegraf plugin: Mesos input plugin
mesos.json
- “Mesos Active Slaves”
- “Mesos Tasks Active”
- “Mesos Tasks”
- “Mesos Outstanding offers”
- “Mesos Available/Used CPUs”
- “Mesos Available/Used Memory”
- “Mesos Master Uptime”
mongodb
Required Telegraf plugin: MongoDB input plugin
mongodb.json
- “MongoDB - Read/Second”
- “MongoDB - Writes/Second”
- “MongoDB - Active Connections”
- “MongoDB - Reds/Writes Waiting in Queue”
- “MongoDB - Network Bytes/Second”
mysql
Required Telegraf plugin: MySQL input plugin
mysql.json
- “MySQL - Reads/Second”
- “MySQL - Writes/Second”
- “MySQL - Connections/Second”
- “MySQL - Connection Errors/Second”
nginx
Required Telegraf plugin: NGINX input plugin
nginx.json
- “NGINX - Client Connections”
- “NGINX - Client Errors”
- “NGINX - Client Requests”
- “NGINX - Active Client State”
nsq
Required Telegraf plugin: NSQ input plugin
nsq_channel.json
- “NSQ - Channel Client Count”
- “NSQ - Channel Messages Count”
nsq_server.json
- “NSQ - Topic Count”
- “NSQ - Server Count”
nsq_topic.json
- “NSQ - Topic Messages”
- “NSQ - Topic Messages on Disk”
- “NSQ - Topic Ingress”
- “NSQ topic egress”
phpfpm
Required Telegraf plugin: PHPfpm input plugin
phpfpm.json
- “phpfpm - Accepted Connections”
- “phpfpm - Processes”
- “phpfpm - Slow Requests”
- “phpfpm - Max Children Reached”
ping
Required Telegraf plugin: Ping input plugin
ping.json
- “Ping - Packet Loss Percent”
- “Ping - Response Times (ms)”
postgresql
Required Telegraf plugin: PostgreSQL input plugin
postgresql.json
- “PostgreSQL - Rows”
- “PostgreSQL - QPS”
- “PostgreSQL - Buffers”
- “PostgreSQL - Conflicts/Deadlocks”
rabbitmq
Required Telegraf plugin: RabbitMQ input plugin
rabbitmq.json
- “RabbitMQ - Overview”
- “RabbitMQ - Published/Delivered per second”
- “RabbitMQ - Acked/Unacked per second”
redis
Required Telegraf plugin: Redis input plugin
redis.json
- “Redis - Connected Clients”
- “Redis - Blocked Clients”
- “Redis - CPU”
- “Redis - Memory”
riak
Required Telegraf plugin: Riak input plugin
riak.json
- “Riak - Toal Memory Bytes”
- “Riak - Object Byte Size”
- “Riak - Number of Siblings/Minute”
- “Riak - Latency (ms)”
- “Riak - Reads and Writes/Minute”
- “Riak - Active Connections”
- “Riak - Read Repairs/Minute”
system
The system
application includes metrics that require all of the listed plugins. If any of the following plugins aren’t enabled, the metrics associated with the plugins will not display data.
cpu
Required Telegraf plugin: CPU input plugin
cpu.json
- “CPU Usage”
disk
disk.json
Required Telegraf plugin: Disk input plugin
- “System - Disk used %”
diskio
Required Telegraf plugin: DiskIO input plugin
diskio.json
- “System - Disk MB/s”
mem
Required Telegraf plugin: Mem input plugin
mem.json
- “System - Memory Gigabytes Used”
net
Required Telegraf plugin: Net input plugin
net.json
- “System - Network Mb/s”
- “System - Network Error Rate”
netstat
Required Telegraf plugin: Netstat input plugin
netstat.json
- “System - Open Sockets”
- “System - Sockets Created/Second”
processes
Required Telegraf plugin: Processes input plugin
processes.json
- “System - Total Processes”
procstat
Required Telegraf plugin: Procstat input plugin
procstat.json
- “Processes - Resident Memory (MB)”
- “Processes – CPU Usage %”
system
Required Telegraf plugin: Procstat input plugin
load.json
- “System Load”
varnish
Required Telegraf plugin: Varnish
varnish.json
- “Varnish - Cache Hits/Misses”
win_system
Required Telegraf plugin: Windows Performance Counters input plugin
win_cpu.json
- “System - CPU Usage”
win_mem.json
- “System - Available Bytes”
win_net.json
- “System - TX Bytes/Second”
- “RX Bytes/Second”
win_system.json
- “System - Load”
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