Grafana integration

Deadline
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Hi guys,

We have deployed a Telegraf/InfluxDB/Grafana stack to monitor our file servers and render nodes, and we’re looking at getting Deadline’s MongoDB to add in there too. The idea is to be able to take a peek at the farm situation in a moment of time, see what potential problems there are, for example a certain file server getting hit too hard, and take some action - give a certain job machine limit, for example. We can do the viewing part in Grafana, but we’ll have to go to the deadline monitor to take the action. Wouldn’t it be cool if that could all be done from the deadline monitor? if there was a panel that we could add Grafana in, and have links to jobs and servers in their panels too.

Cheers

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Well, the big ask since Deadline 6 has been user-defined panels. It’s possible to create a panel but it’s not possible to have it load itself on startup.

I can help on the integration side, and it shouldn’t be hard for a developer knowledgeable with PyQt to be able to write a POC for some sort of Monitor script that could tie into both sides. I can guide there if you’re game for that.

In the mean time, I’ve added you to the list of folks who want to make their own panels. :slight_smile:

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+1 from here :slight_smile:

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Yes, that does sound interesting! We’ll write you up when we get to it, thanks!