Configure Grafana Cloud

This page guides you through importing a pre-built dashboard and verifying that metrics are flowing from your Aerospike Cloud cluster.

Import the namespace dashboard

The namespace dashboard shows memory usage, disk usage, and object counts. These are the key metrics for scaling decisions.

1. Download the dashboard JSON file:

   curl -L -o namespace.json \
     https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aerospike/aerospike-monitoring/master/config/grafana/dashboards/namespace.json

2. Open your Grafana Cloud instance at https://YOURNAME.grafana.net.

3. In the sidebar, click Dashboards.

4. Click New > Import.

5. Click Upload dashboard JSON file and select namespace.json.

6. Select a folder and click Import.

Verify metrics

Confirm that the dashboard displays data from your cluster.

1. Open the Namespace View dashboard.

2. Verify that the panels show data. Key panels for scaling decisions:

   • Stop Writes / HWM breached (total): Critical indicator that capacity limits were hit
   • Data (bytes) (total): Shows used vs total storage
   • % Data used: Percentage of disk consumed

   Some panels may show “N/A” for deprecated metrics. This is expected.

3. If panels show no data, wait 1-2 minutes for the scrape interval, then refresh the page.

Troubleshooting

If metrics don’t appear after a few minutes, check the Alloy logs:

aws logs tail /ecs/alloy-aerospike --since 10m

Look for errors related to scraping or remote write.

Additional dashboards

The aerospike-monitoring repository includes additional dashboards you can import:

• Cluster View: Cluster-level overview with latencies and system metrics
• Node View: Node-level metrics for troubleshooting individual nodes
• Alerts View: Consolidated alert visualization

See Dashboards in the database documentation for details on each dashboard and example PromQL queries.

Checklist

• I can see Aerospike metrics in Grafana Cloud.