Monitoring Canton using Grafana

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Hi Canton Team,

Referring to Monitoring using Grafana on Canton, does anyone have a working example of a setup or a HOWTO on this combination?

I have used Grafana before but wondering if there are any known issues when using Canton?

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Hi Ben,

You can configure canton to report to graphite with the following config options (docs):

canton.monitoring.metrics.reporters = [{
  type = graphite
  address = "localhost" // default
  port = 2003
  prefix.type = hostname // default
  interval = 30s // default
  filters = [{
    contains = "canton"
  }]
}]

There is one known issue: you shouldn’t report all the metrics that Canton has, or Graphite will become overloaded and discard arbitrary data.

In general, the Canton team uses a pretty standard Graphite/Grafana installation, so that should work for you too :slight_smile:

I hope that helps,
Phoebe

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