This tool allows the IBM Storage Scale users to perform performance monitoring for IBM Storage Scale devices using third-party applications such as Grafana or Prometheus software.
The OpenTSDB API now needs to be explicitly registered via port configuration in config.ini before it can be used with Grafana.
Added the new Prometheus Exporter plugin which collects metrics and exposes them in a format that can be scraped by the Prometheus timeseries database. This plugin also needs to be enabled via port configuration.
Added Prometheus server configuration file examples.
Added a Client Basic Authentication over HTTP/S support.
Added features to collect and report performance statistics about grafana-bridge itself.
The main changes of 8.0.0: