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jorgedlcruz / vmware-grafana

A simple way to retrieve vCenter information and send it to InfluxDB, to present it later with Grafana
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VMware vSphere -VMs - Large infrastructure #8

Closed digitaljedi2 closed 5 years ago

digitaljedi2 commented 5 years ago

Is there any way to make the dashboard load all the panels, without trying to consume all the data?

We have about 600 vm's, and this page takes forever to load, and eats up lots of memory (60GB) just to render. Anyway to have this load without processing data unless a panel is clicked?

jorgedlcruz commented 5 years ago

Hello, it is a great Feature request, let me look of what I can do, maybe another option might be to select only the needed VMs, so the panel comes without any VM enabled, and maybe pagination will be great too. Let me check

digitaljedi2 commented 5 years ago

Appreciate it. Ideally we'd want to select a single vm, or two, and only have it load then. Great work though!

sunnybhatnagar commented 5 years ago

Any help on this issue will be greatly appreciated. We are facing the same issue with 2000+ VM's.

aimar-worth commented 5 years ago

Same issue even with 100+ VM's. Other than that, great dashboards!

jorgedlcruz commented 5 years ago

Let me check what can I do with Influx or Grafana to limit the numbers of VMs showing at the same time guys, thanks so much for the feedback!

jorgedlcruz commented 5 years ago

I've uploaded a new Dashboard for the VMs section, I've minimized the panels, and order them alphabetically, not pagination at the moment, the other option is to show just one big panel, and when you pick the VMs from the drop down will appear inside the graph, as vSphere Client does really, thoughts?

einhirn commented 5 years ago

the other option is to show just one big panel, and when you pick the VMs from the drop down will appear inside the graph, as vSphere Client does really, thoughts?

I thought about that, too... Of course a Graph with 450 VMs (in our case) will be very crowded, but maybe more performant than creating 4500 Panels expanded like before.

Maybe there is a way to incoorporate The offset Clause into Grafana so that we can properly paginate the results whatever filters are active otherwise...

Also: Thinking of having to checkbox select some VMs from a list of 450 is rather cumbersome - I don't know yet whether Grafana supports using other variables in the query of one variable, because that would be great. Only other way I see is to allow direct editing of the regex in a textbox but I couldn't make that work yet.

einhirn commented 5 years ago

Just tried the new dashboard - much better. Take a look at this - maybe you can make use of it? Introducing Pagination for Grafana Scripted Dashboards

jorgedlcruz commented 5 years ago

Hi guys, please try the latest Grafana v6.2, as it does include lazy load, meaning that it doesn't load the panels which are not visible, making the Dashboard work great, also if using Grafana v6.2, make sure you download the latest dashboard update, as it does make use of the new Bar Gauge Panel :)

jorgedlcruz commented 5 years ago

I hope now it does load better, I will close it, as I've seen it working with a couple of hundred VMs and thanks to the new lazy loading from Grafana 6.2, this works just great.