goru97 / grafana-blueflood_docker

Docker container, making Grafana work with Blueflood / Rackspace Metrics.

Description:

Docker Container to run Grafana - 3.0.1 on Blueflood / Rackspace Metrics.

Building / Pulling:

docker build -t goru97/grafana-blueflood .
or
docker pull goru97/grafana-blueflood

Running:

With local Blueflood Setup:

docker run -p 3000:3000 -e BLUEFLOOD_QUERY_URL=<YOUR_BLUEFLOOD_URL> -e TENANT_ID=$YOUR_TENANT_ID goru97/grafana-blueflood

With Rackspace Metrics:

docker run -p 3000:3000 -e BLUEFLOOD_QUERY_URL=https://global.metrics.api.rackspacecloud.com -e TENANT_ID=$YOUR_TENANT_ID -e RAX_USERNAME=$YOUR_RACKSPACE_USERNAME -e RAX_APIKEY=$YOUR_RACKSPACE_APIKEY goru97/grafana-blueflood

Setting Up Grafana:

• Sign - Up

• Add Organization

• Add API-Key for role-based access / To use HTTP-APIs

• Add Datasource (Option 1 - Using GUI):

  • Add Blueflood as name of the datasource
  • Select Graphite as the Type
  • Set the URL to http://localhost:8888

• Add Datasource (Option 2 - Using CURL):

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer <API-KEY-FROM-GUI>" -X POST -d '{ "name":"Blueflood", "type":"graphite", "url":"http://localhost:8888", "access":"proxy", "basicAuth":false }' http://grafana-host:3000/api/datasources