Internal metrics

You can use a collector’s internal metrics to identify issues and make decisions about scaling based on resource usage. Visualize these metrics with out-of-the-box dashboards in Grafana Fleet Management.

View health dashboards for a registered collector

The Fleet Management service displays dashboards based on Alloy Health metrics in the application interface.

1. In your Grafana Cloud stack, click Connections > Collector > Fleet Management.
2. Search, filter, or sort to find the unhealthy collector in your Inventory.
3. Click on the collector to open the details view drawer and view the Health tab.

The dashboards in the Health tab are based on the Alloy Health integration and default to use metrics scraped by the self_monitoring_metrics pipeline, which is assigned automatically to a registered collector. You can change the data source with the dropdown menu on the Health tab of the details view. If you’ve installed the Alloy Health integration for the collector, a Dashboards button appears in the details view, which takes you to the integration dashboard.

Fleet Management dashboards

The application offers five dashboards:

• The Collector dashboard reports metrics from the collector’s component controller.
• The Resources dashboard reports metrics based on the collector’s resource usage.
• The Remote Configuration dashboard reports on the health of remote configuration loading. It includes panels for:
  • The last configuration load status.
  • The configuration load success rate over time.
  • Configuration error logs from the collector’s log stream.
• The Prometheus Components dashboard reports metrics on the performance of Prometheus components in the collector’s configuration, including:
  • prometheus.scrape
  • prometheus.remote_write
• The Cluster Node dashboard reports metrics on the status of communication with peers within a cluster of Alloy instances. Metrics reported on this dashboard begin with cluster_node_*. Clustering must be enabled before Cluster Node metrics are reported.