RemoteViz Monitoring with Grafana/InfluxDB

In this demo, the MonitoringMetricsListener is sending metrics directly to InfluxDB using the UDP protocol. All metrics are then accessible on a dashboard displayed by Grafana. We are using Docker Compose to create and manage the Grafana / InfluxDB part of the demo.

• The GrafanaMonitoredRenderingService folder contains the RemoteViz service demo.
• The DockerCompose folder contains all necessary files to start monitoring the demo.

Using Docker Compose

Install Docker:

• Linux, macOS (> 2010) and Windows 10: https://docs.docker.com/install/#supported-platforms
• macOS (< 2010) and Windows 7: https://docs.docker.com/toolbox/overview/

Install Docker Compose: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Start and stop the services:

# On Windows 7, the demo folder MUST be located on the C: drive
# (or you need to edit the Docker Toolbox configuration)
cd /c/path/to/the/demo/folder/DockerCompose
 
# If not on Windows 7 go into the demo folder
cd $OIVHOME/examples/source/RemoteViz/Monitoring/MonitoringGrafana/DockerCompose
 
# To start the services
docker-compose up -d
 
# At the end, to stop the services
docker-compose stop
 
# Or to remove the containers and clean the volumes (clean all metrics from DB)
docker-compose down --volumes

Access the Grafana dashboard

On Linux, Docker for Mac or Docker for Windows

Grafana should now be listening on port 3000 on your Docker daemon host. Enter http://0.0.0.0:3000/ in a browser to see the application running.

With Docker Toolbox

Get the IP address of your Docker host:

# If you did not change the machine name
docker-machine ip default

Open http://MACHINE_VM_IP:3000 in a browser. In that case, you also need to either :

• Edit the influxdb_ip variable in the MonitoringMetricsListener.cxx file
• Setup some port forwarding rules for the Docker machine in VirtualBox:

  # If the VirtualBox install directory is in your PATH, run:
  VBoxManage controlvm "default" natpf1 "influxdb_udp,udp,127.0.0.1,4444,,4444"
  VBoxManage controlvm "default" natpf1 "influxdb_http,tcp,127.0.0.1,8086,,8086"

Monitoring process

1. Start the Docker Compose services
2. Start the RemoteViz Advanced Monitoring demo
3. Open the index.html page inside the Monitoring/Client folder
4. Open Grafana (Username: admin | Password: remoteviz)
5. Go to the RemoteViz Monitoring Dashboard (Dashboard->Manage->RemoteViz Monitoring Dashboard)