Grafana Dashboard not showing values

[deajan]

@Guitarbilly: Follow-up from #132

I guess you don't use tenants on your prometheus setup. Mind reconfiguring the "backup_job" variable to remove tenant label filter ?

[deajan]

Configuring a universal Grafana Dashboard isn't the easiest to do, since it depends on the setup environment. Perhaps, if you're okay with the idea, you could allow me to access your Grafana instance (via screeen sharing or something alike) so I can have a look at why the dashboard doesn't show any metrics ?

[GuitarBilly]

@deajan i am very sure that when I first added this dashboard it worked fine. Since I do not watch it every time, i cannot say exactly when or with what change/version/experiment it blanked out to N/A with the warning as shown in #132 .

Can you elaborate a bit more on "tenant"?

I have done the requested change, removed the tenant filter from the backup_job and now it shows data again:

[deajan]

So basically you can have grafana and metric storage in mono-tenant (no tenant label) or multi-tenant configuration. I've added indeed a filter to backup_job variable so only backup jobs from selected tenant are shown. Obviously, your setup isn't multi tenant, so there's something wrong with the filter.

This being quite difficult to debug between various Grafana setups, I'd definitly need access to a mono-tenant setup so I can tune the dashboard to work on both.

[GuitarBilly]

You could easily spin up a setup via docker, I have done that for restic-server + prometheus + node_exporter + pushgateway + grafana.

Follow steps here https://github.com/restic/rest-server/tree/master/examples/compose-with-grafana, and expand it with node_exporter and pushgateway sections, i.e.:

  node_exporter:
    image: prom/node-exporter:latest
    #container_name: node_exporter
    ports:
      - 9100:9100
    volumes:
      - ./node_exporter:/node_exporter
    depends_on:
      - prometheus
    command:
      - '--collector.textfile.directory=/node_exporter'
    networks:
      - net

  pushgateway:
    image: prom/pushgateway:latest
    #container_name: pushgateway
    ports:
      - "9091:9091"
    volumes:
      - ./pushgateway:/pushgateway
    depends_on:
      - prometheus
    command:
      - '--persistence.file=/pushgateway/persistence.file'
    networks:
      - net

[deajan]

Closed in favor of #158