feat(mixin): Add OTel Engine Overview dashboard#5573
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Adds a new Grafana dashboard to the Alloy mixin for monitoring the embedded OpenTelemetry engine, along with regenerated rendered dashboards and a small docker-compose path fix.
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- Introduce the source (
otel-engine-overview.libsonnet) and rendered (alloy-otel-engine-overview.json) “Alloy / OTel Engine Overview” dashboard. - Update the dashboard template variable helper to change query-variable sorting (reflected in regenerated rendered dashboards).
- Fix the
watch-dashboardsvolume mount path in the docker-compose Grafana setup.
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| operations/alloy-mixin/dashboards/otel-engine-overview.libsonnet | New dashboard source definition for OTel engine overview. |
| operations/alloy-mixin/rendered/dashboards/alloy-otel-engine-overview.json | Rendered output for the new OTel engine overview dashboard. |
| operations/alloy-mixin/dashboards/utils/dashboard.jsonnet | Changes default template variable sort order used across dashboards. |
| operations/alloy-mixin/dashboards.libsonnet | Wires the new dashboard into the mixin import set. |
| operations/alloy-mixin/rendered/dashboards/alloy-resources.json | Regenerated rendered dashboard reflecting template variable sort changes. |
| operations/alloy-mixin/rendered/dashboards/alloy-prometheus-remote-write.json | Regenerated rendered dashboard reflecting template variable sort changes. |
| operations/alloy-mixin/rendered/dashboards/alloy-opentelemetry.json | Regenerated rendered dashboard reflecting template variable sort changes. |
| operations/alloy-mixin/rendered/dashboards/alloy-loki.json | Regenerated rendered dashboard reflecting template variable sort changes. |
| operations/alloy-mixin/rendered/dashboards/alloy-controller.json | Regenerated rendered dashboard reflecting template variable sort changes. |
| operations/alloy-mixin/rendered/dashboards/alloy-cluster-overview.json | Regenerated rendered dashboard reflecting template variable sort changes. |
| operations/alloy-mixin/rendered/dashboards/alloy-cluster-node.json | Regenerated rendered dashboard reflecting template variable sort changes. |
| operations/alloy-mixin/config.libsonnet | Adds clarifying comments for a couple of config flags. |
| example/docker-compose/grafana.yaml | Corrects relative path used to mount the mixin into the watch container. |
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This looks really cool 👍 my review mostly comes from watching the accompanying video but in general the queries make sense to me, would love to poke around it a bit live as well
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Brief description of Pull Request
Adds a new Grafana dashboard to the Alloy mixin for monitoring the embedded OpenTelemetry engine, along with regenerated rendered dashboards and a small docker-compose path fix.
Changes:
Pull Request Details
Screenshot. Note that logs panels are empty because we are not receiveing logs traffic in this test instance
Issue(s) fixed by this Pull Request
Fixes #4724
Notes to the Reviewer
PR Checklist