Grafana question

[ashman70]

I have a dashboard setup now monitoring one of my unRAID servers and I have some questions.

 

How would I add dashboards to monitor other unRAID servers?

If I wanted to add a dashboard to monitor Plex, would I just add the data from the telegraf.conf file from the Plex dashboard to my existing telegraph.conf file for my unRAID dashboard, or does it become its own instance and if so how do I set that up?

[chris_netsmart]

I found this site to add your plex monitoring.   https://github.com/barrycarey/Plex-Data-Collector-For-InfluxDB

[chris_netsmart]

@ashman70  if you are still looking on how to do the plex monitoring then I have resolve the issue. and got mine working.

I will write up my notes and post them here before the weekend, if you are still interested

[ashman70]

Yes thanks, I am still interested.

 

[chris_netsmart]

NOTE:  I have taking information from 3rd Party websites and joined them together I have place the links and sites within his post.

 

First we will set up Grafana and get it to monitor the Unraid environment

 

requirements

·         running Docker service on your unRAID machine

·         Community Applications installed on your system

·         SSH access to your unRAID machine (alternatively, a file management application like Krusader or direct share access to your appdata folder)

 

 

Used Software

·         InfluxDB - Database solution for storing all of our metrics.

·         Telegraf - Plugin-based metrics gathering software that will feed our metrics into InfluxDB for storage

·         Grafana - Metrics visualization software that will draw our dashboard

 

 

Installation

 

Part One: InfluxDB

We'll be using InfluxDB as our database solution to save all the precious gathered metrics.

1.    Go to your Apps section and search for "InfluxDB".

2.    Install the InfluxDB Docker image by atribe. You don't have to make any changes to the settings except if you previously assigned port 8083 or 8086. If you have allocated ports 8083 or 8086 before, change those ports and make note of the change.

 

Part Two: Telegraf

We're using Telegraf to actually collect the metrics and send them to InfluxDB for storage.

1.    Go to your Apps section and search for "Telegraf".

2.    Install the Telegraf Docker image by atribe. We'll be using Telegraf, NOT unTelegraf (which does not use a configuration file but lets you change settings only by setting variables in the docker container configuration itself). Please remove the variable "HOST_MOUNT_PREFIX" in the installation overview.

3.    After the installation go to your Docker section and stop the Telegraf docker. Download the telegraf.conf configuration file to your computer and open it with a text editor of your choice.

4.    Navigate to the "Output Plugins" section in said config file and change the "urls" value under [[outputs.influxdb]] to your unRAID server's IP and port 8086 (or your chosen port number if you changed the InfluxDB settings).

5.    In the same section, change the "database" name to "telegraf".

6.    Navigate to the "Input Plugins" section. After "[[inputs.system]]", add "[[inputs.net]]" in a new line. This will enable network monitoring for all network interfaces.

7.    If you want to monitor your docker containers, remove the # in front of [[inputs.docker]].

8.    If you would like to, you can change how often metrics are gathered in line 28 of the file under the section "Configuration for telegraf agent". The more frequently you gather metrics, the more CPU heavy Telegraf gets. I'd recommend 30 seconds.

9.    Save the config file on one of your unRAID servers shares. Be careful to name it "telegraf.conf". Connect to your machine via SSH and move the "telegraf.conf" file from your user share to /mnt/user/appdata/telegraf. If a telegraf.conf file already exists, delete it and replace it with your file.

10.  Restart Telegraf. From now on it should be feeding metrics into your running InfluxDB database.

 

Part Three: Grafana

Grafana will be our front-end, the piece of software you'll be observing all the metrics with. And since nobody likes staring at database tables to see CPU usage, we'll teach Grafana to draw some nice graphs with your collected metrics.

1.    Go to your Apps section and search for "Grafana".

2.    Install the Grafana Docker image by atribe. Set the GF_SERVER_ROOT_URL to your servers IP address (put http:// in front of it) and change GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD to a password of your liking.

3.    After the installation go to Grafana's web UI (http://yourserverip:3000). Log in with the user name "admin" and your chosen password. You'll be greeted by your Home Dashboard.

4.    Click on "Create your first data source". Give it a name, select InfluxDB as the type, enter http://YourServerIP:8086 for URL, set access to direct. Under InfluxDB Details set the database to telegraf. Save and test it. Grafana should now be connected to your InfluxDB database.

 

Technical Ramblings screen shoots

 

Download Unraid System Dashboard

Next import the dashboard by hovering over the + icon and selecting Import

 

local your Unraid System Dashboard click Load
Give it a name and UID, select the database in the drop down and click Import.

 

And now you should have a basic dashboard that is showing some information

 

If not then click on one of the titles, and choose edit,

And then choose change $telegrafdatasoruce to InfluxDB Servers

 

So now well done you have Grafane working.

 

Now for the Plex monitoring.

 

Install the Tautulli docker and link it to your Plex

Then install Varken

 

Go to  www.maxmind.com  and create an account

And follow the steps

MaxMind (Required when using the Tautulli module):

1. Sign up for a MaxMind account. Make sure to verify the account.
2. Go to your Account, then Services > My License Key in the side menu, then click "Generate New License Key".
3. Enter a License key description, and select "No" for "Will this key be used for GeoIP Update?", then click "Confirm".
4. Copy the License Key and fill in the Varken config.

 

For TautullI  API go to the TautullI docker webGUI,  click on Settings, then Web Interface and at the bottom, copy the API and copy it onto the Varken.ini file

 

Go navigate to appdata\Varken folder

And open the varken.example.ini

 

You will need to modify the following

https://github.com/Boerderij/Varken/wiki/Configuration

change the numbers to false as we will not be using them 

copy your maxmind Licence Key 

Enter in your Unraid IP Address 

 

[global]

sonarr_server_ids = false

radarr_server_ids = false

lidarr_server_ids = false

tautulli_server_ids = 1

ombi_server_ids = false

sickchill_server_ids = false

unifi_server_ids = false

maxmind_license_key = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

[influxdb]

url = CHANGE THIS TO YOUR UNRAID SERVER IP

port = 8086

ssl = false

verify_ssl = false

username = root

password = root

 

[tautulli-1]

url = CHANGE THIS TO YOUR UNRAID SERVER IP:8181

fallback_ip = 1.1.1.1

apikey = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

ssl = false

verify_ssl = false

get_activity = true

get_activity_run_seconds = 30

get_stats = true

get_stats_run_seconds = 3600

 

restart Varken

 

Test

open your plex server and start streaming something

open an explorer and type in    http://YOUUNRAIDIPADDRESS:8181/api/v2?apikey=YOURTAUTULLIKEY&cmd=get_activity

this should give you a page of information, 

 

 

Set up a new data source pointing to the varken database

then  Download this   https://alexsguardian.net/2019/02/21/monitoring-your-media-server-with-varken/ and inport

and lastly all you need to do is go through and change the data source in the new dashboard to point to varken.

 

 

 

Referance Websites 

https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/7c2l2w/howto_monitor_unraid_with_grafana_influxdb_and/

https://technicalramblings.com/blog/how-to-setup-grafana-influxdb-and-telegraf-to-monitor-your-unraid-system/

https://technicalramblings.com/blog/how-to-setup-grafana-influxdb-and-telegraf-to-monitor-your-unraid-system

 

Plex Referance

https://wiki.cajun.pro/books/varken/page/breakdown

https://github.com/Boerderij/Varken/wiki/Configuration

[chris_netsmart]

I hope that all helps.  it is not as clean as spaceinvaderone videos but I think I have basics covered

[Marcjwebb]

can anyone share a good set up guide, everything I have found seems outdated and steps no longer match up

[Squid]

Have you seen this?

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/7c2l2w/howto_monitor_unraid_with_grafana_influxdb_and/

[Marcjwebb]

Have you seen this?
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/7c2l2w/howto_monitor_unraid_with_grafana_influxdb_and/

Yeah that’s the guide I tried to follow. But it quickly shows that the guide doesn’t match with the latest version. It asks to stop it and export a config file, but after install it wasn’t running and it asks for a co gif file to be added first. Just didn’t match so made it hard to follow. Will try again though.


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[Squid]

This thread might help

 

 

[falconexe]

On 9/12/2020 at 4:33 PM, Squid said:

This thread might help

 

 

 

I ran that thread. This one will help more! I am the developer of the Ultimate UNRAID Dashboard (UUD). Check it out!

 

 

[fiR3W4LL]

Hi Guys

Does someone else have this Problem??

Everytime i update Grafana, it looses everything. All settings/databases are gone. Have to redoit from scratch?

 

Thx for help.

Regards

[fiR3W4LL]

Found the Problem, the Host Path was set to /var/lib/grafana2 instead of grafana, dont know why. 
But Grafana now stores the Files in the right folder.