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Monitoring Apache Ignite Cluster With Grafana (Part 1)

Apache Ignite  is built on JVM and not a set-it-and-forget-it system. So, like other distributed systems, it requires monitoring for acting on time. However, Apache Ignite provides a web application named Ignite Web Console to manage and monitor the cluster, but it's not enough for system monitoring. You can also use JConsole/VisualVM for monitoring an individual Ignite node and a small number of Ignite nodes. Monitoring an Ignite cluster over 5 nodes by VisualVM or JConsole is unrealistic and time-consuming. Also, JMX does not provide any historical data. So, it is not recommended for production environments. Nowadays, there are a lot of tools available for system monitoring. The most famous of them are: Nagios Zabbix Grafana In this article, we cover the Grafana for monitoring Ignite clusters and provide step-by-step instructions to install and configure the entire stack technology. Grafana  is an open source graphical tool dedicated to query, visualize, and alert all