Monitor with Grafana cloud

This guide will help you set up monitoring for your Wingbits clients using Grafana Cloud.

Prerequisites

  • A Grafana Cloud account (free tier available at grafana.com)

Step 1: Install Grafana Alloy

Grafana Alloy is a collector that will gather metrics from your Wingbits clients.

  1. Go to https://{your-grafana-account}.grafana.net/a/grafana-collector-app/alloy

  2. Follow the installation instructions

  3. Enable Remote Configuration during setup

Step 2: Configure Metrics Collection

  1. Wait a few minutes for your server to appear under Collector->Fleet Management

  2. Select Remote Configuration and click Create Configuration Pipeline

  3. Choose Custom Configuration

  4. Paste this configuration (replace the IPs with your Wingbits clients):

prometheus.scrape "wingbits_hosts" {
    targets = [
        {__address__ = "192.168.10.1:8088", alias = "station1"},
        {__address__ = "192.168.10.2:8088", alias = "station2"},
    ]
    forward_to = [prometheus.remote_write.default.receiver]
}

prometheus.remote_write "default" {
    endpoint {
        url = sys.env("GCLOUD_HOSTED_METRICS_URL")
        basic_auth {
            username = sys.env("GCLOUD_HOSTED_METRICS_ID")
            password = sys.env("GCLOUD_RW_API_KEY")
        }
    }
}

  1. Click Test Configuration Pipeline

  2. Select matching attributes (e.g., os=linux)

  3. Save the configuration

Step 3: Create Dashboard

  1. Go to Dashboards → New → Import

  2. Paste the dashboard JSON below

  3. Save and view your metrics

Your dashboard will now show two graphs:

  • Readsb received: Shows the rate of data received by your Wingbits clients

  • Server sent: Shows the rate of data sent by your server

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