Open-Falcon plugin for Grafana

Open-Falcon is an open-source, enterprise-level, and large-scale service monitoring system and time series database. It's initially released by Xiaomi SRE team in 2015 and heavily used in Xiaomi. Open-Falcon is now one of the most popular monitoring system in China internet companies.

Installation

Download prebuild version of grafana on official site

https://grafana.com/grafana/download Grafana v3.0 or newer(test passed on v5.0.3)

or you can install grafana via homebrerw:

brew update 
brew install grafana

Checkout the plugin

cd {GRAFANA_PATH_Installed}/data/plugins
git clone https://github.com/open-falcon/grafana-openfalcon-datasource

Start grafana-server

{GRAFANA_PATH_Installed}/bin/grafana-server

If you have started grafana-server, you have to restart it after installing plugins.

After Installation

If the installation is successful, Open-Falcon datasource would be shown as follow:

How to Set up datasource

• the backend services is provide by falcon-plus.

Work with variables

When you select metrics, you can use variables if you "Toggle Edit Mode", e.g. $host#mem#memfree#percent is ok.