[ceph-users] Re: dashboard with grafana embedding in 16.2.6

2021-11-26 Thread Jake Grimmett
Hi Ernesto, That makes sense - thanks for explaining why the changes were made. As we don't use cephadm, being able to customise the data source would be fantastic. I've put a tiny pull request to update the docs mentioning "The data source must be named "Dashboard1" best regards, Jake

[ceph-users] Re: dashboard with grafana embedding in 16.2.6

2021-11-26 Thread Ernesto Puerta
Hi Marc, While it might be tempting to rely on Ceph itself to store the monitoring data, IMHO it would be a bad idea: the monitoring I/O load might interfere with the cluster performance, and, in a worst case scenario, the monitoring data might become unavailable (probably the exact kind of situat

[ceph-users] Re: dashboard with grafana embedding in 16.2.6

2021-11-26 Thread Marc
>- Now, with Cephadm, you can easily deploy a highly-available > monitoring Really? Sorry for asking because I don't know anything about podman. But does podman automatically start tasks on a different node when one is down? And do they have some native ceph support for external volumes to f

[ceph-users] Re: dashboard with grafana embedding in 16.2.6

2021-11-26 Thread Ernesto Puerta
Hi Jake, AFAIC there were a couple of reasons why we changed that: - Now, with Cephadm, you can easily deploy a highly-available monitoring stack (needs a bit of polishing yet though). If, for example, you extend the Prometheus instance count to 2 or 3, Cephadm will automatically conf