Detect hosts that stop sending metrics

[amotl]

Dear Dirk,

we would like to introduce you to how we tackle the problem of detecting data staleness altogether. I recognize this solution is painted in a different color but nevertheless might also resonate with you.

Monitor a Grafana datasource against data becoming stale to detect data loss or other dropout conditions

Dear Grafana Community, we always wanted to share a little tool we are running to check data staleness of various data acquisition channels we are feeding into InfluxDB within the Hiveeyes Project. It observes overall data freshness through the whole data acquisition machinery by actually looking at the data source endpoint exposed by Grafana itself and checking the age of the most recent visible data point against a configurable staleness threshold. This detects data loss conditions of any k…

GitHub - cicerops/monitoring-check-grafana: Monitor a Grafana datasource...

With kind regards,
Andreas.