[GSoC Project Proposal]: Prometheus server- graphs and monitoring for ERDDAP™

[ChrisJohnNOAA]

Project Description

We recently started adding Prometheus metrics to ERDDAP™. The main goal of this project is to build an example Prometheus Server which can monitor one or more ERDDAP™ instances. This may involve adding new metrics to the ERDDAP™ project which is where Java would be used.

Expected Outcomes

A Prometheus Server configuration that is runnable through Docker and can be used to monitor one or more ERDDAP™ instances. This will help ERDDAP™ admin's monitor their servers and provide usage insight that can help guide future ERDDAP™ development.

Skills Required

Java, Prometheus, YML, Docker

Additional Background/Issues

The main ERDDAP™ repo is here.

Mentor(s)

Chris John (@ChrisJohnNOAA)

Expected Project Size

175 hours

Project Difficulty

Intermediate

[7yl4r]

I'm running a grafana monitoring stack for the MBON dashboard server. I've read about prometheus but haven't tried it. Could be a great solution for improved ERDDAP monitoring and reporting.

[ayushsingh01042003]

Is there an achitecture in mind for this? Will we have an erddap-monitoring module in the current repository or something like a new repository for everything related to monitoring?

And since this example server will be containerized and runnable through docker, we use the existing image for prometheus on docker hub or do we get the entire prometheus server binary and configure that to be run through docker?