Using OpenTSDB in Grafana

    • In the side menu under the link you should find a link named Data Sources.
    • Click the + Add data source button in the top header.
    • Select OpenTSDB from the Type dropdown.

    Open a graph in edit mode by click the title. Query editor will differ if the datasource has version <=2.1 or = 2.2. In the former version, only tags can be used to query OpenTSDB. But in the latter version, filters as well as tags can be used to query opentsdb. Fill Policy is also introduced in OpenTSDB 2.2.

    Note: While using OpenTSDB 2.2 datasource, make sure you use either Filters or Tags as they are mutually exclusive. If used together, might give you weird results.

    Instead of hard-coding things like server, application and sensor name in you metric queries you can use variables in their place. Variables are shown as dropdown select boxes at the top of the dashboard. These dropdowns makes it easy to change the data being displayed in your dashboard.

    Checkout the Templating documentation for an introduction to the templating feature and the different types of template variables.

    Grafana’s OpenTSDB data source supports template variable queries. This means you can create template variables that fetch the values from OpenTSDB. For example, metric names, tag names, or tag values.

    When using OpenTSDB with a template variable of query type you can use following syntax for lookup.

    One template variable can be used to filter tag values for another template variable. First parameter is the metric name, second parameter is the tag key for which you need to find tag values, and after that all other dependent template variables. Some examples are mentioned below to make nested template queries work successfully.

    For details on OpenTSDB metric queries checkout the official

    It’s now possible to configure datasources using config files with Grafana’s provisioning system. You can read more about how it works and all the settings you can set for datasources on the provisioning docs page

    Here are some provisioning examples for this datasource.