- [Accessing Prometheus and Grafana via your browser](#accessing-prometheus-and-grafana-via-your-browser)
- [Configuring data source and dashboard in Grafana](#configuring-data-source-and-dashboard-in-grafana)
- [Making the feeder's heatmap and graphs pages available in Grafana](#making-the-feeders-heatmap-and-graphs-pages-available-in-grafana)
- [Advanced Configuration: support for dashboards for multiple ultrafeeder instances](#advanced-configuration-support-for-dashboards-for-multiple-ultrafeeder-instances)
- [Step 1: Edit your Prometheus config file so the `job_name`s look like this](#step-1-edit-your-prometheus-config-file-so-the-job_names-look-like-this)
- [Step 2: Change your initial Grafana dashboard to use the new job name](#step-2-change-your-initial-grafana-dashboard-to-use-the-new-job-name)
- [Step 3: Clone the dashboard and repoint it at your second `ultrafeeder` instance](#step-3-clone-the-dashboard-and-repoint-it-at-your-second-ultrafeeder-instance)
When using the `:telegraf` tag, the image contains [Telegraf](https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/), which can be used to capture metrics from `readsb` if an output is enabled.
**NOTE - READ CAREFULLY**: As of 27 April 2023, the `latest` image no longer contains Telegraf. If you want to send metrics to InfluxDB or Prometheus, please use the `:telegraf` tag like this in your `docker-compose.yml` file:
Prometheus will store a lot of data, and Grafana will do a lot of data queries. As a result, it would be better if you run these containers on a different system than your feeder Raspberry Pi. This will leave your Pi focused on data collection and processing, and unbothered by the CPU and Disk IO load that Prometheus/Grafana will cause.
You _can_ do it on a single system. We're assuming below that you are not. If you do it on a single system, then you can combine the `docker-compose.yml` components in a single file
\*) The volume definition structure is written this way purposely to ensure that the containers can place files in the persistent directories. Do not try to "directly" map volumes (`/opt/grafana/grafana/appdata:/var/lib/grafana`).
Prometheus needs to be told where to look for the data from the ultrafeeder. We will create a target prometheus configuration file that does this, please copy and paste the following. Make sure to replace `ip_xxxxxxx` with the IP address or hostname of the machine where `ultrafeeder` is running:
If you are using the `docker-dump978` container to receive UAT data (USA only!), you can add a Prometheus scraper for this also needs to be told where to look for the data from the ultrafeeder. We add a target to the prometheus configuration file to do this. Please copy and paste the following. Make sure to replace `ip_xxxxxxx` with the IP address or hostname of the machine where `dump978` is running:
-`http://docker.host.ip.addr:9090/` to access the `prometheus` console.
-`http://docker.host.ip.addr:3000/` to access the `grafana` console, use admin/admin as initial credentials, you should be prompted to change the password on first login.
### Making the feeder's heatmap and graphs pages available in Grafana
The dashboard comes preconfigured with panels that show the tar1090 heatmap and graphs1090 stats pages. These panels need to be configured to look for this data at the correct URL.
Note that these URLs need to be accessible from the browser that you use to see the Grafana dashboard - they should work if you enter them in your browser's URL box.
If you don't have access to these URLs, it'd be safe to simply delete these panels from your dashboard.
- Step a: Log into Grafana and open the Ultrafeeder dashboard that you already created
- Step b: Click on the cogwheel (`Dashboard Settings`) in the top of the screen
- Step c: Choose `JSON Model` from the Setting menu on the left of the screen and click anywhere in the JSON text
- Step d. Press CTRL-F (Window/Linux) or CMD-F (Mac) and press the `>` button to show Find and Replace:<br/>
- Step e: Find all (2) instances of `my_feeder` and replace them with the IP of your tar1090 map page
- Step f: Press `Save dashboard` at the top right of the screen, followed by `Save` on the next screen
If you have multiple feeder stations with multiple instances of `ultrafeeder`, you can configure a dashboard for each of them. Here's how. In our example, we have two `ultrafeeder` instance called `heerlen` and `trenton`. You can adjust these names in accordance with your needs.
First execute all steps above, and then continue here.
Here, `10.0.0.100` is the IP address of the `heerlen` station, and `10.0.0.101` is the IP address of the `trenton` station. Yours will be different. Please keep the ports as you mapped them for Ultrafeeder in each instance. You should have a `- job_name` block for each ultrafeeder instance.
You can remove the `ultrafeeder` section as it will probably be a duplicate of what you just created.
Once you are done editing, restart Prometheus (`docker restart prometheus`).
In the previous step, you replaced the `ultrafeeder` job name by two or more new names. Now, we need to create a copy of the dashboard for each of the job names and make sure they each use the data source from the correct `ultrafeeder` instance.
- Step 2a: Log into Grafana and open the Ultrafeeder dashboard that you already created
- Step 2b: Click on the cogwheel (`Dashboard Settings`) in the top of the screen
- Step 2c: Choose `JSON Model` from the Setting menu on the left of the screen and click anywhere in the JSON text
- Step 2d. Press CTRL-F (Window/Linux) or CMD-F (Mac) and press the `>` button to show Find and Replace:<br/>
- Step 2e: Find all instances of `job=\"ultrafeeder\"` and replace them with `job=\"heerlen\"` (or whatever name your first feeder has)
- Step 2f: Press `Save dashboard` at the top right of the screen, followed by `Save` on the next screen
- Step 3a: Press the `Share` icon (to the right of the star, next to the page title)
- Step 3b: Click the `Export` tab. Switch on `Export for sharing externally`
- Step 3c: Press `View JSON` and `Copy to Clipboard`
- Step 3d: `X` out of the popup box, leave the Dashboard, and go back to the `Browse Dashboards` page.
- Step 3e: Click `New` -> `Import`. Right-click in the `Import via panel json` box, and paste your clipboard. Press `Load`
- Step 3f: Change the `Name` and `uid` (pick anything you want), and select `Prometheus` as data source. IMPORTANT: if you do not change the `Name` and `uid`, it will overwrite your existing dashboard. CHANGE BOTH OF THEM! Then press `Import`
- Step 3g: You will see your new dashboard, but it's still getting data from your first one. Follow steps 2b - 2g above to change the data source from `heerlen` (or whatever you named it) to `trenton` (or whatever name you want to give to it)
