Hi,

Can you please suggest which dashboards best suite for API connect monitoring mechanism for version V10.0.1 or higher?

Also please share the advantages and disadvantages of those dashboards.

For our API Connect SaaS environments we have standardised on Grafana for our primary monitoring dashboards as this has plugins for the different monitoring data sources across different environments (IBM Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Instana and many more), but are also using Instana alongside it.  If you are running in OpenShift or Kubernetes I have written an Open-Source Prometheus exporter for API Connect which will supplement standard monitoring metrics with some additional API Connect specific ones - GitHub - IBM/apiconnect-trawler: API Connect metrics exporter - which exposes a standard prometheus formatted endpoint which can be read by Prometheus or other monitoring tools such as Instana or Sysdig. 

We have used Grafana primarily due to the ability to have all the datasources in one place as but also the familiarity we have with it as we've used it for years. 

If you're starting fresh I'd recommend taking a look at Instana as that will give you the agent, data storage and dashboarding out of the box - and you can start easily with a trial to see how it works for you. 

Hi,

Can you please suggest which dashboards best suite for API connect monitoring mechanism for version V10.0.1 or higher?

Also please share the advantages and disadvantages of those dashboards.

Hi Ricky,

Thanks for your quick response.

Just wanted to know, if we can have any in build dashboard in API Connect v10.0.x, where we will get email/notification alert for any issue.

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Nrusingha Sahoo
Nrusingha

Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 30, 2023 02:21 AM
From: Ricky Moorhouse
Subject: Implementation of monitoring of APIs, CPU, Disk, Memory in external dashboard for API Connect v10.0.1 or higher

For our API Connect SaaS environments we have standardised on Grafana for our primary monitoring dashboards as this has plugins for the different monitoring data sources across different environments (IBM Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Instana and many more), but are also using Instana alongside it.  If you are running in OpenShift or Kubernetes I have written an Open-Source Prometheus exporter for API Connect which will supplement standard monitoring metrics with some additional API Connect specific ones - GitHub - IBM/apiconnect-trawler: API Connect metrics exporter - which exposes a standard prometheus formatted endpoint which can be read by Prometheus or other monitoring tools such as Instana or Sysdig. 

We have used Grafana primarily due to the ability to have all the datasources in one place as but also the familiarity we have with it as we've used it for years. 

If you're starting fresh I'd recommend taking a look at Instana as that will give you the agent, data storage and dashboarding out of the box - and you can start easily with a trial to see how it works for you. 

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Ricky Moorhouse
IBM API Connect Cloud Architect

Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 30, 2023 12:42 AM
From: Nrusingha Sahoo
Subject: Implementation of monitoring of APIs, CPU, Disk, Memory in external dashboard for API Connect v10.0.1 or higher

Hi,

Can you please suggest which dashboards best suite for API connect monitoring mechanism for version V10.0.1 or higher?

Also please share the advantages and disadvantages of those dashboards.

------------------------------
Thanks
Nrusingha
------------------------------

For our API Connect SaaS environments we have standardised on Grafana for our primary monitoring dashboards as this has plugins for the different monitoring data sources across different environments (IBM Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Instana and many more), but are also using Instana alongside it.  If you are running in OpenShift or Kubernetes I have written an Open-Source Prometheus exporter for API Connect which will supplement standard monitoring metrics with some additional API Connect specific ones - GitHub - IBM/apiconnect-trawler: API Connect metrics exporter - which exposes a standard prometheus formatted endpoint which can be read by Prometheus or other monitoring tools such as Instana or Sysdig. 

We have used Grafana primarily due to the ability to have all the datasources in one place as but also the familiarity we have with it as we've used it for years. 

If you're starting fresh I'd recommend taking a look at Instana as that will give you the agent, data storage and dashboarding out of the box - and you can start easily with a trial to see how it works for you. 

------------------------------
Ricky Moorhouse
IBM API Connect Cloud Architect

Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 30, 2023 12:42 AM
From: Nrusingha Sahoo
Subject: Implementation of monitoring of APIs, CPU, Disk, Memory in external dashboard for API Connect v10.0.1 or higher

Hi,

Can you please suggest which dashboards best suite for API connect monitoring mechanism for version V10.0.1 or higher?

Also please share the advantages and disadvantages of those dashboards.

------------------------------
Thanks
Nrusingha
------------------------------

For our API Connect SaaS environments we have standardised on Grafana for our primary monitoring dashboards as this has plugins for the different monitoring data sources across different environments (IBM Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Instana and many more), but are also using Instana alongside it.  If you are running in OpenShift or Kubernetes I have written an Open-Source Prometheus exporter for API Connect which will supplement standard monitoring metrics with some additional API Connect specific ones - GitHub - IBM/apiconnect-trawler: API Connect metrics exporter - which exposes a standard prometheus formatted endpoint which can be read by Prometheus or other monitoring tools such as Instana or Sysdig. 

We have used Grafana primarily due to the ability to have all the datasources in one place as but also the familiarity we have with it as we've used it for years. 

If you're starting fresh I'd recommend taking a look at Instana as that will give you the agent, data storage and dashboarding out of the box - and you can start easily with a trial to see how it works for you. 

------------------------------
Ricky Moorhouse
IBM API Connect Cloud Architect

Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 30, 2023 12:42 AM
From: Nrusingha Sahoo
Subject: Implementation of monitoring of APIs, CPU, Disk, Memory in external dashboard for API Connect v10.0.1 or higher

Hi,

Can you please suggest which dashboards best suite for API connect monitoring mechanism for version V10.0.1 or higher?

Also please share the advantages and disadvantages of those dashboards.

------------------------------
Thanks
Nrusingha
------------------------------

For our API Connect SaaS environments we have standardised on Grafana for our primary monitoring dashboards as this has plugins for the different monitoring data sources across different environments (IBM Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Instana and many more), but are also using Instana alongside it.  If you are running in OpenShift or Kubernetes I have written an Open-Source Prometheus exporter for API Connect which will supplement standard monitoring metrics with some additional API Connect specific ones - GitHub - IBM/apiconnect-trawler: API Connect metrics exporter - which exposes a standard prometheus formatted endpoint which can be read by Prometheus or other monitoring tools such as Instana or Sysdig. 

We have used Grafana primarily due to the ability to have all the datasources in one place as but also the familiarity we have with it as we've used it for years. 

If you're starting fresh I'd recommend taking a look at Instana as that will give you the agent, data storage and dashboarding out of the box - and you can start easily with a trial to see how it works for you. 

------------------------------
Ricky Moorhouse
IBM API Connect Cloud Architect

Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 30, 2023 12:42 AM
From: Nrusingha Sahoo
Subject: Implementation of monitoring of APIs, CPU, Disk, Memory in external dashboard for API Connect v10.0.1 or higher

Hi,

Can you please suggest which dashboards best suite for API connect monitoring mechanism for version V10.0.1 or higher?

Also please share the advantages and disadvantages of those dashboards.

------------------------------
Thanks
Nrusingha
------------------------------

Hello Ricky,

Regarding trawler, is there an option to monitor API Connect CPU/Memory/Disk?

Thanks,

Antonis

For our API Connect SaaS environments we have standardised on Grafana for our primary monitoring dashboards as this has plugins for the different monitoring data sources across different environments (IBM Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Instana and many more), but are also using Instana alongside it.  If you are running in OpenShift or Kubernetes I have written an Open-Source Prometheus exporter for API Connect which will supplement standard monitoring metrics with some additional API Connect specific ones - GitHub - IBM/apiconnect-trawler: API Connect metrics exporter - which exposes a standard prometheus formatted endpoint which can be read by Prometheus or other monitoring tools such as Instana or Sysdig. 

We have used Grafana primarily due to the ability to have all the datasources in one place as but also the familiarity we have with it as we've used it for years. 

If you're starting fresh I'd recommend taking a look at Instana as that will give you the agent, data storage and dashboarding out of the box - and you can start easily with a trial to see how it works for you. 

------------------------------
Ricky Moorhouse
IBM API Connect Cloud Architect

Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 30, 2023 12:42 AM
From: Nrusingha Sahoo
Subject: Implementation of monitoring of APIs, CPU, Disk, Memory in external dashboard for API Connect v10.0.1 or higher

Hi,

Can you please suggest which dashboards best suite for API connect monitoring mechanism for version V10.0.1 or higher?

Also please share the advantages and disadvantages of those dashboards.

------------------------------
Thanks
Nrusingha
------------------------------

Hi Antonis, 

There's nothing for standard system metrics (CPU, memory, disk) in trawler as there are many tools that specialise in this data - trawler is focused on API Connect specific metrics.

Thanks

Ricky

Hello Ricky,

Regarding trawler, is there an option to monitor API Connect CPU/Memory/Disk?

Thanks,

Antonis

For our API Connect SaaS environments we have standardised on Grafana for our primary monitoring dashboards as this has plugins for the different monitoring data sources across different environments (IBM Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Instana and many more), but are also using Instana alongside it.  If you are running in OpenShift or Kubernetes I have written an Open-Source Prometheus exporter for API Connect which will supplement standard monitoring metrics with some additional API Connect specific ones - GitHub - IBM/apiconnect-trawler: API Connect metrics exporter - which exposes a standard prometheus formatted endpoint which can be read by Prometheus or other monitoring tools such as Instana or Sysdig. 

We have used Grafana primarily due to the ability to have all the datasources in one place as but also the familiarity we have with it as we've used it for years. 

If you're starting fresh I'd recommend taking a look at Instana as that will give you the agent, data storage and dashboarding out of the box - and you can start easily with a trial to see how it works for you. 

------------------------------
Ricky Moorhouse
IBM API Connect Cloud Architect

Original Message:
Sent: Thu March 30, 2023 12:42 AM
From: Nrusingha Sahoo
Subject: Implementation of monitoring of APIs, CPU, Disk, Memory in external dashboard for API Connect v10.0.1 or higher

Hi,

Can you please suggest which dashboards best suite for API connect monitoring mechanism for version V10.0.1 or higher?

Also please share the advantages and disadvantages of those dashboards.

------------------------------
Thanks
Nrusingha
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