Prometheus and Grafana Monitoring for Enterslice
Drasken Labs provides infrastructure monitoring and operational support for Enterslice's production environment, covering servers, database services and customer-facing websites and applications.
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At a glance
Who the project was for and what we delivered.
- Industry
- Financial & Legal Advisory
- Services
- Server Maintenance
- Observability
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Application Availability Monitoring
- Technology
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Blackbox Exporter
- Alertmanager
Managing visibility across multiple systems
Enterslice operated a production environment consisting of multiple servers, database services and externally accessible websites and applications. The environment required centralized visibility into infrastructure health, database services and application availability.
As the environment grew, monitoring different systems independently could make it harder to identify infrastructure problems, service failures and availability issues. The requirement was to establish a centralized approach for monitoring infrastructure, services and application availability.
Server monitoring
Infrastructure health and resource monitoring across production servers.
Database monitoring
Monitoring and operational visibility across database services.
Application availability
Availability monitoring for externally accessible websites and application services.
Metrics & dashboards
Centralized visibility into infrastructure and service health.
Alerting
Detection and notification of relevant infrastructure and availability issues.
Operational support
Ongoing monitoring and infrastructure support for the production environment.
Monitoring and operational support
Drasken Labs works on the monitoring and operational side of the environment, helping provide a consistent view of infrastructure and service health.
We monitored server-level health and resource utilization, and database services (MySQL, Elasticsearch and Redis) as part of the overall environment, giving visibility into their availability and operational state.
Infrastructure health alone does not always show whether an application is reachable by its users, so we also monitored customer-facing websites and application endpoints to identify availability problems independently of underlying server health.
Prometheus
Metrics collection and monitoring.
Grafana
Monitoring dashboards and visualization.
Blackbox Exporter
External endpoint availability monitoring.
Alertmanager
Alert routing and management.
- Infrastructure
- Metrics & availability checks
- Centralized monitoring
- Dashboards
- Alerts
- Operational response
A centralized view of infrastructure health
The monitoring approach brought infrastructure, database and application availability signals into one operational view.
Different parts of the environment could then be observed from a common monitoring layer, rather than treating each server or application as an isolated system.
Centralized operational visibility
Monitoring data was organized into dashboards, giving a consolidated view of infrastructure and service health.
- Servers
- Health
- Resource utilization
- Databases
- MySQL
- Elasticsearch
- Redis
- Endpoints
- Website availability
- Application availability
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Detecting operational issues
Monitoring was complemented by alerting, so relevant infrastructure and availability problems could be identified without relying only on manual checks.
A centralized view of the production environment
Drasken Labs established a centralized monitoring and observability approach across Enterslice's production environment, providing visibility into server health, database services and externally accessible applications.
The engagement brought infrastructure metrics, service health and application availability into a unified operational monitoring approach, helping provide a clearer view of the overall production environment.
Centralized visibility
Infrastructure and application health could be viewed through one monitoring approach.
Broader monitoring coverage
Monitoring extended beyond servers to databases and externally accessible applications.
Availability detection
Endpoints could be checked independently of the health of the servers behind them.
Operational awareness
Infrastructure and service health signals surfaced through dashboards and alerts.
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Chat on WhatsAppWhat did Drasken Labs do for Enterslice?
Infrastructure monitoring and operational support across a multi-server production environment, database services and customer-facing websites and applications.
Which services did the Enterslice project involve?
Server Maintenance, Observability, Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Availability Monitoring.
What is the status of the Enterslice project?
The engagement with Enterslice is ongoing.
Can Drasken Labs help with a similar project?
Yes. Tell us about your infrastructure, applications or operational challenges. We can help identify the monitoring and engineering approach that fits your environment.
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