Improving your monitoring setup by integrating Cloudflare’s analytics data into Prometheus and Grafana

Martin Hauskrecht from Labyrinth Labs shares their experience integrating Cloudflare's Analytics data with Prometheus and Grafana using a custom-built exporter in Go. The integration allows for better understanding of systems, correlation of metrics, and more efficient Day-2 operations. The exporter pulls data from Cloudflare's GraphQL Analytics API and transforms it into Prometheus metrics exposed on a /metrics endpoint. Deployment is made easier with a Docker image and Helm chart. Grafana is used to visualize the metrics, allowing for individual zone targeting and creation of alerts. The team plans to integrate more analytics data in the future.