What it is
Dashboards with real-time charts of server and service health.
How we apply it
To see the load, the error count and whether everything is alive — on one screen, without logging into every server separately.
Monitoring & CI/CD
What is Grafana
Where it helps a business
- There are several servers and services, and logging into each to see whether everything is alive takes too long.
- You need to see load and errors over time: what happened last night when everything slowed down.
- A manager or the person on duty needs one screen with the overall picture.
How we use it
Grafana with Prometheus is part of our infrastructure stack for projects with many servers and metrics. In the smaller projects among our cases monitoring is simpler and needs no dashboard: container health checks and a Telegram message on failure. That is how the finance assistant works, with an external check every 5 minutes, and Peregovorka, where a failed database restore check reaches the administrator as a message.
Common problems
- A dashboard nobody looks at. Charts do not replace alerts: a failure should send a message.
- Too many charts. What matters gets lost among the secondary.
When you do not need it
For one server with a couple of bots, health checks and Telegram messages are enough: a dashboard would be pretty but unnecessary.
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