PJUllrich
Connecting prom_ex to grafana.com
I tried to set up a Grafana/Prometheus dashboard with prom_ex and a free account at grafana.com and let me tell you upfront that I’m a total idiot when it comes to these things. So, it might not surprise you that I cannot find out which values to put in the grafana-config of prom_ex even if my life depended on it. I put the following config:
# config.exs
config :my_app, MyApp.PromEx, disabled: true
# prod.exs
config :my_app, MyApp.PromEx,
disabled: false,
manual_metrics_start_delay: :no_delay,
drop_metrics_groups: [],
grafana: [
host: System.get_env("GRAFANA_HOST"),
username: System.get_env("GRAFANA_USER"),
password: System.get_env("GRAFANA_PASSWORD")
],
metrics_server: :disabled
Now, if I click through the myriad of config sites on https://some-name-some-numbers.grafana.net I find values like this:
URL: https://prometheus-prod-01-eu-west-0.grafana.net/api/prom
User: 1234567 # Some number
Password: my-secret-password # I set a password here
I found these by clicking on the prometheus-SomeNameSomeNumbers-prom data source in the Settings-tab.
I put these env variables, but when I start my server, I get the following logs:
Recieved a 404 from Grafana because: %Finch.Response{body: "404 page not found\n", ...}
So clearly, one of the credentials above is wrong. Could somebody with more brain matter help me out please?
PS: Also, what is the datasource_id I have to set in PromEx? Must it be prometheus-SomeNameSomeNumbers-prom?
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akoutmos
Hey Peter!
These are all good questions, and to be honest, it is something that I would love to get some guides around…but alas, limited time 
.
Luckily I use Grafana Cloud, so I know roughly where you are going wrong here 
. The Prometheus credentials that you are referring to are used when you are using Prometheus’s remote_write functionality. By default Prometheus will scrape metrics from your /metrics endpoint, but with Grafana cloud, that is not an option. Instead they want you to go down the route of pushing metrics via Grafana Agent (I have an issue for this in PromEx to make it easier for people Add support to bundle GrafanaAgent to push metrics · Issue #44 · akoutmos/prom_ex · GitHub, but I haven’t had a chance to wrap it up). How are you running your app? Is it easy for you to run Grafana Agent along side it?
In addition, you should be making an access token in Grafana (go to your instance’s /org/apikeys route to do so) and using the :auth_token value in PromEx so that PromEx can publish dashboards for you. The :host value should just be the url of your Grafana Cloud instance.
Hopefully that help
mukhtarkv
@akoutmos thank you for your hard work on PromEx library which I am currently using. I wonder is there a charge on Grafana Cloud Dashboard HTTP API calls? I tried to search on the pricing but it is quite vague. I intend to run Elixir application in production with more than 1000 container instances and I am concerned that all 1000 Elixir containers might be incurring dashboard upload api charge.
akoutmos
I don’t think Grafana charges you for API calls…but don’t quote me on that lol. If you have that many instances running simultaneously you may want to consider only having a single instance deploying the dashboards. If you can, have your runtime.exs file set upload_dashboards_on_start: false on all instances except for one or something like that.
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