Activating the Monitoring Services

The Monitoring Services collect and store time-series data (metrics) from various targets, enabling you to query, and make analysis based on this data. The multi-dimensional data model has its own query language (PromQL) to communicate. The Monitoring Services assist in monitoring and ensuring the reliablility of system and applications.
To activate the Monitoring Services, the administrator must perform the following steps.
  1. From the main menu, click Admin.
  2. In the left navigation pane, select Services.
    The currently running services and their details are displayed.
  3. Select Monitoring Services and click Start.

    Activating the Monitoring Services

    Activating Monitoring Services
  4. Click the Open Monitoring Dashboard to open the Prometheus Dashboard page.

    Clicking the Open Monitoring Dashboard

  5. Enter the Prometheus query in the Search field and click Execute.

    The Prometheus Dashboard Page

    For example, in the above figure, after entering the Prometheus query node_memory_MemAvailable_bytes / 1024 / 1024, the result shows a graph, displaying the available memory in the RUCKUS IoT Controller.

  6. To de-activate the Monitoring Services, from the main menu, go to Admin > Services > Monitoring Services and click Stop.

    De-activating the Monitoring Services

    De-activating the Monitoring Services