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Date Published
Author
Emily Rager
Word count
940
Language
English
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None

Summary

A new Apache Mesos integration with Grafana Cloud offers an efficient way to monitor clusters by centralizing metrics and logs, leveraging the open-source Prometheus Mesos Exporter. This solution simplifies the management of cluster resources such as compute units, memory, and disk, and provides a prebuilt dashboard with over 20 metrics along with five alerting rules to track cluster health, resource usage, and system states. Users can set up the monitoring system by installing the necessary exporter on each cluster node and configuring the Grafana Agent. Once deployed, users gain access to a comprehensive overview dashboard and alerts for issues like high memory and disk usage, unreachable tasks, lack of cluster coordination, and inactive agents, all of which can be customized to fit specific needs. This integration aligns with Grafana Labs' goal of offering a consistent monitoring experience across various data sources, supported by a free-tier option for users to easily start tracking their clusters' performance.