Visualising metrics using Grafana

Envoy Gateway provides support for exposing Envoy Gateway and Envoy Proxy metrics to a Prometheus instance. This task shows you how to visualise the metrics exposed to Prometheus using Grafana.

Prerequisites

Follow the steps from the Quickstart to install Envoy Gateway and the example manifest. Before proceeding, you should be able to query the example backend using HTTP.

Envoy Gateway provides an add-ons Helm Chart, which includes all the needing components for observability. By default, the OpenTelemetry Collector is disabled.

Install the add-ons Helm Chart:

helm install eg-addons oci://docker.io/envoyproxy/gateway-addons-helm --version v1.1.2 --set opentelemetry-collector.enabled=true -n monitoring --create-namespace

Follow the steps from the Gateway Observability and Proxy Metrics to enable Prometheus metrics for both Envoy Gateway (Control Plane) and Envoy Proxy (Data Plane).

Expose endpoints:

GRAFANA_IP=$(kubectl get svc grafana -n monitoring -o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip}')

Connecting Grafana with Prometheus datasource

To visualise metrics from Prometheus, we have to connect Grafana with Prometheus. If you installed Grafana follow the command from prerequisites sections, the Prometheus datasource should be already configured.

You can also add the datasource manually by following the instructions from Grafana Docs.

Accessing Grafana

You can access the Grafana instance by visiting http://{GRAFANA_IP}, derived in prerequisites.

To log in to Grafana, use the credentials admin:admin.

Envoy Gateway has examples of dashboard for you to get started, you can check them out under Dashboards/envoy-gateway.

If you’d like import Grafana dashboards on your own, please refer to Grafana docs for importing dashboards.

Envoy Proxy Global

This dashboard example shows the overall downstream and upstream stats for each Envoy Proxy instance.

Envoy Clusters

This dashboard example shows the overall stats for each cluster from Envoy Proxy fleet.

Envoy Gateway Global

This dashboard example shows the overall stats exported by Envoy Gateway fleet.

Resources Monitor

This dashboard example shows the overall resources stats for both Envoy Gateway and Envoy Proxy fleet.

Update Dashboards

All dashboards of Envoy Gateway are maintained under charts/gateway-addons-helm/dashboards, feel free to make contributions.

Grafonnet

Newer dashboards are generated with Jsonnet with the Grafonnet. This is the preferred method for any new dashboards.

You can run make helm-generate.gateway-addons-helm to generate new version of dashboards. All the generated dashboards have a .gen.json suffix.

Legacy Dashboards

Many of our older dashboards are manually created in the UI and exported as JSON and checked in.

These example dashboards cannot be updated in-place by default, if you are trying to make some changes to the older dashboards, you can save them directly as a JSON file and then re-import.