Chronograf
Chronograf is an open-source web application written in Go and React.js that provides the tools to visualize your monitoring data and easily create alerting and automation rules.
Features
Host List
- List and sort hosts
- View general CPU and load stats
- View and access dashboard templates for configured apps
Dashboard Templates
Chronograf's pre-canned dashboards for the supported Telegraf input plugins. Currently, Chronograf offers dashboard templates for the following Telegraf input plugins:
- Apache
- Consul
- Docker
- Elastic
- etcd
- HAProxy
- IIS
- InfluxDB
- Kubernetes
- Memcached
- Mesos
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Network
- NGINX
- NSQ
- PHPfpm
- Ping
- PostgreSQL
- Processes
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- Riak
- System
- Varnish
- Windows Performance Counters
Note: If a
telegraf
instance isn't running thesystem
andcpu
plugins the canned dashboards from that instance won't be generated.
Data Explorer
Chronograf's graphing tool that allows you to dig in and create personalized visualizations of your data.
- Generate and edit InfluxQL statements with the query editor
- Use Chronograf's query templates to easily explore your data
- Create visualizations and view query results in tabular format
Dashboards
Create and edit customized dashboards. The dashboards support several visualization types including line graphs, stacked graphs, step plots, single statistic graphs, and line-single-statistic graphs.
Use Chronograf's template variables to easily adjust the data that appear in your graphs and gain deeper insight into your data.
Kapacitor UI
A UI for Kapacitor alert creation and alert tracking.
- Simply generate threshold, relative, and deadman alerts
- Preview data and alert boundaries while creating an alert
- Configure alert destinations - Currently, Chronograf supports sending alerts to:
- View all active alerts at a glance on the alerting dashboard
- Enable and disable existing alert rules with the check of a box
- Configure multiple Kapacitor instances per InfluxDB source
User and Query Management
Manage users, roles, permissions for OSS InfluxDB and InfluxData's Enterprise product. View actively running queries and stop expensive queries on the Query Management page.
TLS/HTTPS Support
See Chronograf with TLS for more information.
OAuth Login
See Chronograf with OAuth 2.0 for more information.
Advanced Routing
Change the default root path of the Chronograf server with the --basepath
option.
Versions
Find the most recent version of Chronograf here.
Spotted a bug or have a feature request? Please open an issue!
Known Issues
The Chronograf team has identified and is working on the following issues:
- Chronograf requires users to run Telegraf's CPU and system plugins to ensure that all Apps appear on the HOST LIST page.
Installation
Check out the INSTALLATION guide to get up and running with Chronograf with as little configuration and code as possible.
We recommend installing Chronograf using one of the pre-built packages. Then start Chronograf using:
service chronograf start
if you have installed Chronograf using an official Debian or RPM package.systemctl start chronograf
if you have installed Chronograf using an official Debian or RPM package, and are running a distro withsystemd
. For example, Ubuntu 15 or later.$GOPATH/bin/chronograf
if you have built Chronograf from source.
By default, chronograf runs on port 8888
.
With Docker
To get started right away with Docker, you can pull down our latest release:
docker pull chronograf:latest
From Source
- Chronograf works with go 1.18+, node 12 LTS, and yarn 1.7+.
- Chronograf requires Kapacitor 1.5.x+ to create and store alerts.
- Install Go 1.18
- Install Node (version 16 LTS)
- Install yarn
- Setup your GOPATH
- Build the Chronograf package:
go get github.com/influxdata/chronograf cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/influxdata/chronograf make
- Install the newly built Chronograf package:
go install github.com/influxdata/chronograf/cmd/chronograf
Upgrading
In order to upgrade from a Chronograf older than 1.4.0 (<=1.3.10) to 1.8 or newer, you must first upgrade to any version between 1.4.0 and the newest 1.7.x version.
Compatibility
Chronograf 1.8 introduces a breaking change in the dashboards API (/chronograf/v1/dashboards
) which may affect certain clients. The id
previously was being returned as an integer. Since javascript can't cleanly handle numbers with more than 16 digits (console.log(12345678901234567890)
yields 12345678901234567000
), integer ids have been exposed as strings. As with other resource ids, they will remain stored internally as integers, so no database migration is required. If using .dashboard
files to pre-populate available dashboards, those files should be updated and the id
should be converted to a string value.
Documentation
Getting Started will get you up and running with Chronograf with as little configuration and code as possible. See our guides to get familiar with Chronograf's main features.
Documentation for Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Kapacitor are available at https://docs.influxdata.com/.
Chronograf uses
swagger to
document its REST interfaces. To reach the documentation, run the server and go
to the /docs
for example at http://localhost:8888/docs
The swagger JSON document is in server/swagger.json
Contributing
Please see the contributing guide for details on contributing to Chronograf.