Hi all I’ve written an article in Medium about how...

# ktor

[jorge.rego]

Hi all
I’ve written an article in Medium about how to monitor Ktor API server with Prometheus & Grafana. I hope this can help you somehow. It took me a bit of time to integrate and build the dashboard I’ve shared, so it may save some of your time if you are looking for something similar.
https://medium.com/@math21/how-to-monitor-a-ktor-server-using-grafana-bab54a9ac0dc

[jorge.rego]

This is a starting point, with a single instance, but it can be easily scaled up using Consul and an instance registration so you can display multiple instances metrics. Some changes are needed to achieve that though

[jorge.rego]

Comments and PR’s are welcome, all constructive feedback is appreciated!

[Rémy]

Thanks 🙏

[jorge.rego]

Let me know if you have some questions, I will be around to help

[Rémy]

Hello, I tried several days ago, but Grafana didn’t found any logs...

[Rémy]

When I call the backend endpoint for metric, it works.

[jorge.rego]

Hi @Rémy
Could you add the datasource in Grafana? while adding it, there is a button to test connection to Prometheus. Is Grafana saying it is working?
Sorry for the late reply, I was really busy this week.

[Rémy]

No worries 🙂
I’ve imported the datasource into Grafana but it said it was always down. Even after a while. I didn’t investigate more in it...

Here my repo if you have time to check, and if you want obviously, if I didn’t make some mistakes (https://github.com/remylavergne/spotfinder-backend/tree/develop)

Thanks :)

[jorge.rego]

I will have a look

[jorge.rego]

Ey @Rémy

PR is done to develop. Have a look. If you want I can explain you a bit about the mistake made. This makes Grafana work so I believe this is fixing your problem

[jorge.rego]

Magic!

[Rémy]

Awesome, I look this now 🙂

[Rémy]

The localhost error into the docker-compose YAML... Such a dumb error ahahah

Thank you very much for your time, help, and teaching ;)

[Jorge R]

Hahaha it only happens to the best ones! Happy to help!