Application Real-Time Monitoring Service:Add and use a Simple Log Service data source

Prerequisites

• A Simple Log Service project is created. For more information, see Create a project.

• A Logstore is created. For more information, see Manage a Logstore.

• Indexes are created. For more information, see Create indexes.

• The current RAM user has the AliyunLogFullAccess permission to access the data source.

Procedure

1. Log on to the ARMS console. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Managed Service for Grafana > Workspace Management.

2. On the Workspace Management page, find the workspace that you want to manage and click the URL in the URL column to go to Grafana.

   Note

   You can log on to Grafana with the administrator account of Grafana and the password that you configured when you created the workspace. You can also click Sign in with Alibaba Cloud to log on to Grafana with the current Alibaba Cloud account.

Configure the data source

1. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Data sources.

2. On the Data sources tab, click Add data source.

3. In the Others section of the Add data source page, click log-service-datasource.

   Note

   You can also find the plug-in by entering log-service-datasource in the search box at the top of the page. Fuzzy match is supported.

4. On the configuration page of log-service-datasource, configure the following parameters.

   Parameter	Description
   Name	The name of the data source. The name can be user-defined.
   Endpoint	The endpoint of the project whose data you want to synchronize. You can view the endpoint on the Project Overview tab of the project. For more information, see Endpoints.
   Network Type	Select a network type from the drop-down list.
   Project	The name of the project. You can view the project name in the Projects section in the Simple Log Service console.
   Logstore	The name of the Logstore whose data you want to synchronize. You can view the Logstore name in the project.
   AccessKeyId	AccessKeyId: The AccessKey ID is used to verify user identities. AccessKeySecret: The AccessKey secret is used to encrypt and verify the signature string for authentication. You must keep your AccessKey secret strictly confidential. For more information, see View the information about AccessKey pairs of a RAM user.
   AccessKeySecret

5. Click Save & test.

   If the following information is returned, the data source is added.

Create a dashboard panel

1. In the left-side navigation pane, choose > Dashboard.

2. On the New dashboard page, click Add an empty panel.

3. In the Query section of the Edit Panel page, select log-service-datasource from the Data source drop-down list and configure the following parameters.

   

   Parameter	Description	Example
   Query	Enter a query statement based on the metrics in the data source.	Sample statement for querying PVs: * | select count(*) as c, __time__-__time__%60 as t group by t
   ycol	The metric shown in the Y-axis.	The total number of log entries: c
   xcol(time)	The metric shown in the X-axis. Generally, the parameter is set to the time t.	Time: t

4. In the right-side pane, specify the name, type, and graph styles of the monitoring chart.

5. Click Apply.

   The dashboard panel is created.

6. In the upper-right corner, click the icon. Then, specify the name of the dashboard and the directory in which the dashboard resides.

7. Click Save.

   The dashboard is created.

View monitoring data

1. In the left-side navigation pane, choose > Manage.

2. On the Manage tab, find the folder in which the dashboard is stored and click the dashboard.

   View all monitoring charts on the dashboard.

References

Simple Log Service allows you to store log data and time series data. For information about how to import time series data to Managed Service for Grafana, see Send time series data from Log Service to Grafana.