Thank you, Andy!
This is really excellent, Grafana creates fantastic graphs.
On 27/10/2019 21:26, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A few customers have been testing this for a while now, and it's
> been a while since the last issues were addressed, so now seems like
> a good time to announce it.
>
> We're going to be retiring our Cacti instance¹ in favour of the new
> setup which can be found at:
>
> https://tools.bitfolk.com/grafana/
>
> You all already have access to it.
>
> Those who are familiar with Prometheus and Grafana may be a little
> disappointed: this is not intended to be a full hosted instance,
> only a fairly locked-down replacement for what Cacti provides. I'm
> satisfied that it goes beyond the functionality and usability of
> Cacti, but it isn't like having your own setup and isn't intended to
> be.
>
> Everyone has a default dashboard exposing graphs similar to those
> provided by Cacti, plus a few more besides.
>
> The offer was always open for more of your metrics to be graphed by
> Cacti, but as of today only one customer was making use of that. The
> offer is still open for us to graph extra metrics from you if you
> wish. To do that you'll first need to install Node Exporter² and
> then send a support ticket. You'll then get an additional
> dashboard that looks like a bit like this:
>
> https://tools.bitfolk.com/grafana/dashboard/snapshot/fysbHKJGqJm3Fq6KmtqlRJf0oczKof48
>
> Over the next week or two a wiki article for our Grafana will appear
> and any references to Cacti on our web sites and docs will start to
> disappear, except for a pointer to historical Cacti graphs. Update
> of Cacti graphs is going to be disabled very soon.
>
> Feedback on the service is still welcome of course, though the
> general approach is by now pretty much decided.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> ¹ https://tools.bitfolk.com/cacti/
>
> ² Available as your usual kind of single Go binary from here:
>
> https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter
>
> but also available in modern Debian (at least) as a package.
>
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Jan Henkins
