Deprecation notice

This project has been deprecated, for further information on how to use Redis and Grafana: https://github.com/RedisTimeSeries/grafana-redis-datasource.

RedisTimeSeries-Datasource

Grafana Datasource for RedisTimeSeries

QuickStart

You can tryout the Grafana Datasource for RedisTimeSeries with RedisTimeSeries and Grafana in a single docker compose

cd compose
docker-compose up

Grafana can be accessed on port 3000 (admin:admin)

Grafana Datastore API Server

Overview

A HTTP Server to serve metrics to Grafana via the simple-json-datasource

Grafana configuration

1. install SimpleJson data source: https://grafana.net/plugins/grafana-simple-json-datasource/installation

2. in Grafana UI, go to Data Sources

3. Click Add data source 3.1 choose Name 3.2 Type: SimpleJson 3.3 URL: point to the URL for your GrafanaDatastoreServer.py 3.4 Access: direct (unless you are using a proxy)

4. Query the datasource by a specific key, or * for a wildcard, for example: stats_counts.http.*

Dependencies

To install the needed dependencies just run: pip install -r requirements.txt

GrafanaDatastoreServer.py Usage

usage: GrafanaDatastoreServer.py [-h] [--host HOST] [--port PORT]
                                 [--redis-server REDIS_SERVER]
                                 [--redis-port REDIS_PORT]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --host HOST           server address to listen to
  --port PORT           port number to listen to
  --redis-server REDIS_SERVER
                        redis server address
  --redis-port REDIS_PORT
                        redis server port

Note about timezone

Grafana uses UTC timestamps to query its datastores. This datastore will use the same timestamps to query Redis, which means that it assumes all timestamps are UTC based.