Built-In Local Dashboard

NoSQLBench comes with a built-in helper to get you up and running quickly with client-side testing metrics. This functionality is based on docker, and a built-in method for bringing up a docker stack, automated by NoSQLBench.

WARNING: This feature requires that you have docker running on the local system and that your user is in a group that is allowed to manage docker. Using the --docker-metrics command will attempt to manage docker on your local system.

To ask NoSQLBench to stand up your metrics infrastructure using a local docker runtime, use this command line option with any other NoSQLBench commands:

--docker-metrics

When this option is set, NoSQLBench will start graphite, prometheus, and grafana automatically on your local docker, configure them to work together, and to send metrics the system automatically.

Annotations

As part of this integration, the internal annotation facility for NoSQLBench is also pointed at the grafana instance. Several life-cycle events are reported, in both instant and span form. For example, when an activity is stopped, an annotation is recorded with its parameters, start time, end time, and so on. The built-in dashboards have support for toggling these annotations as a way to provide traceability to test scenarios and events.

Using a Remote Dashboard

If you have started a dashboard docker stack as described above, then you can also run clients in a mode where the metrics and annotations are forwarded to it. In order to do that, simply add this too your command line:

--docker-metrics-at <host>