Grafana is an open source platform for data visualization, monitoring and analysis. You may integrate this software with the Monitoring as a Service for more convenient use.
Go to the API reference
Install grafana
Generate the first token
curl -uusername:password https://api.ionos.com/auth/v1/tokens/generate or -n if you use netrc
It is also possible to query the metrics using curl:
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" https://api.ionos.com/telemetry/api/v1/query?query=instance_cpu_utilization_average
Login to Grafana
Configuration (on the left side)
Data source
URL: https://api.ionos.com/telemetry/
Custom HTTP Headers
Header: Authorization Value: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJK....
HTTP Method: POST
Save & Test
Go to Explore (on the left side)
Choose the new Data source
In the Metrics Browser, write instance
Choose one of the metrics
Run query
You can query on these metrics now:
series whitelist:
- instance_cpu_utilization_average
- instance_network_in_packets
- instance_network_out_bytes
- instance_network_in_bytes
- instance_network_out_packets
- instance_volumes_read_bytes
- instance_volumes_write_bytes
- instance_volumes_read_ops
- instance_volumes_write_ops
