13. Grafana json REST data source to monitor App Mesh

13.1. Simple JSON Datasource - a generic backend datasource

Grafana support use REST API to perform a generic REST API as a customerized data source instead of develop a new plugin

13.1.1. Install Grafana simplejson plugin

Use the grafana-cli tool to install SimpleJson from the commandline:

grafana-cli plugins install grafana-simple-json-datasource
service grafana-server restart

After that, you could see simplejson data source plugin from Grafana.

simplejson

Grafana simple json plugin description

13.1.2. Add App Mesh data source to monitor applications

Add simplejson data source with URL http://appmesh_server:6060/appmesh_grafana

datasource

Note: Add authentication token as Custom HTTP Headers Authorization with Bearer prefix for authenticate with App Mesh, the result just show the applications visible to the token user.

13.1.3. Add dashboard

appmesh

13.2. Grafana Infinity Datasource

Grafana support visualize data from JSON, CSV, XML, GraphQL, HTML & REST APIs. Especially support REST API return JSON data which is similar with App Mesh API: GET /appmesh/applications

Same as SimpleJson, add authentication token as Custom HTTP Headers Authorization with Bearer prefix for authenticate with App Mesh, the result just show the applications visible to the token user.

Use URL http://127.0.0.1:6060/appmesh/applications to query applications from App Mesh.

infinity

Date time string attributes support convert to local ISO date time: date_column

Note: for https without import root CA, please select “Skip TLS Verify”

This plugin also support HTML format for application output Use URL https://appmesh:6060/appmesh/app/ping/output, add Query Parameter html=true, input Rows / Root as body > pre, add one column pre to shown output by line. infinity_html

This plugin also support JSON format for application output Use URL https://appmesh:6060/appmesh/app/ping/output, add Query Parameter json=true