Create a Grafana Report / Dashboard with Input as a device name

Products

• VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

Issue/Introduction

This article provides you the steps to create a Grafana Report / Dashboard with input as a device name. Users can input a device name and it will show the several metrics in a single pane such as CPU , Memory , Interface Stats etc.

Environment

TCSA 2.4

Resolution

Go to Dashboard & Reports tab >> Main >> network device drill down 

Now select any device listed under device list section, currently only below details are seen w.r.t the selected device

• Managed Entities 
• Bandwidth utilization
• Packet in/out Errors
• UPacket in/out errors

If you need to see the other metric such as CPU,memory, active notification on the device follow the below steps;

1. To add the notification list 

• Dashboard & Reports tab >> Main >> Notification List 
• From the Notification list, Copy the "Notification List Panel" (you can see copy option from more.. as seen on the below screenshot)   

• Now paste the copied panel in the  Network device drill down , you can click on Add and select the paste panel option.

• Now edit the newly added Notification list panel to add the following query

“ElementName.keyword: $Device”

1. Similarly, we can do for FileSystem

• Go to Dashboard > Main >> FileSystem
• Click More and you get the copy option to copy the panel

• Go to the Network device drill down page >> click on add and choose the paste panel option.

In case if you do not see the data, please make sure to increase the time range.

Similarly, you can add any other panels.