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Monitoring

Metrics of your application

Once your hello-world application is ready, use the following command to get application monitoring information:

hln metrics hello-world

And the output looks like this:

Use this cridential to login the monitoring dashboards of hello-world:
Username: admin
Password: prom-operator

Application hello-world has 1 available dashboard(s):
NAME URL
Remix Application Metrics http://grafana.h8r.site/d/AA_8_pu7k/remix-application-metrics

See the dashboards

Open the link of grafana dashboard in your favorite browser and login with the cridentials printed above.

remix-dashboard

This graph shows how many times your application has been visited. Now go to your hello-world application's homepage and refresh a lot of times to make some requests. Then go back to dashboard page, wait a minute and refresh it. You will see the steep slope in your dashboard, which is caused by the requests we just made.

remix-dashboard

Trigger an alert

Go to Requestbin and create a Request Bin. It's a webhook which we can send our alerts to.

requebin

Make a file with the name amcfg.yaml, paste the following content into that file.

amcfg.yaml
apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1alpha1
kind: AlertmanagerConfig
metadata:
name: hln-config
labels:
alertmanagerConfig: hln
spec:
route:
receiver: 'hln-receiver'
receivers:
- name: 'hln-receiver'
webhookConfigs:
- url: <your_reuqestbin_url>

Switch the placeholder <your_requestbin_url> with the real url of your requestbin and run the following command:

kubectl apply -f amcfg.yaml

Now the requestbin is the notifications' receiver. We can trigger the alert and alertmanager will send notifications automatically. You can visit your application's error page to make a 500 error intentionally, which will trigger the alert rule created by hln stack.

remix-error

Wait a minute and go back to your requestbin dashboard. You will receive a notification that the alert rule has been triggered.

alert-notifications

Congrats. You have finished exploring the monitoring section.

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