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Published inJun 2020
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Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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Exploring Prometheus

Once we have the Prometheus data source properly configured, you might be wondering what kind of data we're likely to see. Turns out, since we configured Prometheus to scrape itself, we'll get a bunch of juicy internal server metrics delivered to the scraped endpoint and stored in the Prometheus database. So, let's dive in and get an idea of what's there.

Using Explore for investigation

Selecting Explore from the left-hand side menu activates the Explore tool. Basically, Explore includes special versions of both Graph and Table panel plugins, each looking at the same data source query. Make sure to select your Prometheus data source from the dropdown, then select a metric data series by selecting up from the Metrics menu. This is probably the simplest metric available: it shows 1 if the server is up and 0 otherwise. You can see, from the following screenshot, that (obviously) our Prometheus server is up and running:

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Published in: Jun 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838826581

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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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