Metrics and their visualisation#
In this page we'll cover how to enable metrics and how to use Grafana and Prometheus to help you visualize these real-time metrics concerning the Fluffy node.
Enable metrics in Fluffy#
To enable metrics run Fluffy with the --metrics flag:
The address can be changed with the --metrics-address and --metrics-port options.
This provides only a snapshot of the current metrics. In order track the metrics over time and to also visualise them one can use for example Prometheus and Grafana.
Visualisation through Prometheus and Grafana#
The steps on how to set up metrics visualisation with Prometheus and Grafana is explained in this guide.
A Fluffy specific dashboard can be found here.
This is the dashboard used for our Fluffy Portal network fleet.
In order to use it locally, you will have to remove the
{job="nimbus-fluffy-metrics"} part from the instance and container
variables queries in the dashboard settings. Or they can also be changed to a
constant value.
The other option would be to remove those variables and remove their usage in each panel query.