Server Infrastructure birds eye view monitoring

  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?

v12.3.0

  • What are you trying to achieve?

Im trying to create a dashboard which can be used as a “birds eye view” for my entire server infrastructure. Coming from Bigbrother (Xymon) ideally I want a dynamic dashboard where vertically I have my servers and horizontally their metrics. I mostly only interested in errors on this overview dashboard.

  • How are you trying to achieve it?

I have tried different options like using alert list directly or the stat visualization. But I have not found a satisfying solution or public dashboard.

In my Bigbrother (Xymon) Monitoring I e.g. visualize metrics coming from servers which have different bash scripts running on them (probably will have to use textfile collector to use these scripts for grafana). Of course I standardize lot of metrics via node/blackbox exporter etc. and have dedicated dashboards for them.

The goal is to have all this information in one flexible/easy expandable dashboard. And only deep dive if necessary to lets say a node exporter dashboard.

I would be very interested to hear from some solutions of the grafana community. Thanks!

May be you could try observing your network with something actually resembling a network? A topology plugin

@vaduga Do you have something specific in mind? Public plugin/dashboards?