TDengine Monitoring

After TDengine is started, a database named log is created automatically to help with monitoring. Information that includes CPU, memory and disk usage, bandwidth, number of requests, disk I/O speed, slow queries, is written into the log database at a predefined interval. Additionally, some important system operations, like logon, create user, drop database, and alerts and warnings generated in TDengine are written into the log database too. A system operator can view the data in log database from TDengine CLI or from a web console.

The collection of the monitoring information is enabled by default, but can be disabled by parameter monitor in the configuration file.

TDinsight

TDinsight is a complete solution which uses the monitoring database log mentioned previously, and Grafana, to monitor a TDengine cluster.

From version 2.3.3.0, more monitoring data has been added in the log database. Please refer to TDinsight Grafana Dashboard to learn more details about using TDinsight to monitor TDengine.

A script TDinsight.sh is provided to deploy TDinsight automatically.

Download TDinsight.sh with the below command:

  1. wget https://github.com/taosdata/grafanaplugin/raw/master/dashboards/TDinsight.sh
  2. chmod +x TDinsight.sh

Prepare：

  1. TDengine Server

    • The URL of REST service：for example http://localhost:6041 if TDengine is deployed locally
    • User name and password
  2. Grafana Alert Notification

There are two ways to setup Grafana alert notification.

  • An existing Grafana Notification Channel can be specified with parameter -E, the notifier uid of the channel can be obtained by curl -u admin:admin localhost:3000/api/alert-notifications |jq

    1. sudo ./TDinsight.sh -a http://localhost:6041 -u root -p taosdata -E <notifier uid>

  • The AliCloud SMS alert built in TDengine data source plugin can be enabled with parameter -s, the parameters of enabling this plugin are listed below:

    • -I: AliCloud SMS Key ID
    • -K: AliCloud SMS Key Secret
    • -S: AliCloud SMS Signature
    • -C: SMS notification template
    • -T: Input parameters in JSON format for the SMS notification template, for example{"alarm_level":"%s","time":"%s","name":"%s","content":"%s"}
    • -B: List of mobile numbers to be notified

    Below is an example of the full command using the AliCloud SMS alert.

    1.    sudo ./TDinsight.sh -a http://localhost:6041 -u root -p taosdata -s \
    2.      -I XXXXXXX -K XXXXXXXX -S taosdata -C SMS_1111111 -B 18900000000 \
    3.      -T '{"alarm_level":"%s","time":"%s","name":"%s","content":"%s"}'

Launch TDinsight.sh with the command above and restart Grafana, then open Dashboard http://localhost:3000/d/tdinsight.

For more use cases and restrictions please refer to TDinsight.