Application performance monitoring (APM) with traces

    Before you begin importing the dashboards:

    • Add these data sources in Grafana:
    • Check that the extension is installed. To verify if the extension is installed, run this SQL query: SELECT * FROM pg_extension WHERE extname='timescaledb_toolkit'; If the query returns no results, then the extension is not installed. For more information about installing the extension, see the toolkit extension installation documentation.
    • From Promscale Github repository as JSON files.

    1. Check if the extension is available:

    2. Install the extension using:

      1. CREATE EXTENSION timescaledb_toolkit;
    1. In the select the dashboard with APM prefix, click the Details button to open a dashboard.
    2. Click Copy ID to Clipboard to copy the UID of the dashboard.
    3. In the Grafana UI, select Import from the + Create icon on the side menu.
    4. Paste the dashboard UID in the Import via grafana.com textbox, and click Load. The page appears.
    5. In the Folder drop-down menu, choose the folder to which you want to add the dashboard.
    6. Select the data sources from which you want the dashboard to query the data:
      • For application performance monitoring dashboards, select Promscale Jaeger Tracing data source as Promscale-Tracing.
    7. Click Import.

    repository contains all the dashboards published by Promscale.

    1. Download all the .json files with apm prefix from the repository.
    2. In the Grafana UI, select Import from the Create icon on the side menu.
    3. Select the Upload JSON file button, and select the downloaded JSON dashboard file. The Importing dashboard from Grafana.com page appears.
    4. In the Folder drop-down menu, choose the folder to which you want to add the dashboard.
    5. Select the data sources from which you want the dashboard to query the data:
      • For application performance monitoring dashboards, select TimescaleDB or PostgreSQL data source as Promscale-SQL.
      • For application performance monitoring dashboards, select Promscale Jaeger Tracing data source as Promscale-Tracing.
    6. Click Import.