Jaeger: Is there another way to monitor jaeger without prometheus

[yeqown]

there's some resistance for me to using Prometheus, my question as the title describes. Could I have another way to monitor jaeger?

thanks to your help ~

[jpkrohling]

What do you want to use instead? The /metrics endpoint is compatible with OpenMetrics, and can be read by most modern monitoring solutions. We also have a health check port that you can use for simple ping-like monitoring, like what Nagios would use.

[yeqown]

Actually, I'm finding a way to use /metrics endpoint by Grafana directly ~, is this possible? I don't need all indicators in /metrics

[jpkrohling]

@joe-elliott should correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Grafana "just" a way to plot data (ie, dashboard)? You'd still need Prometheus as a data source for Grafana.

But let me confirm something: you are talking about monitoring Jaeger, not your instrumented applications, right?

[joe-elliott]

Correct. Grafana only plots data, it does not scrape metrics, store them or provide a query api. Prometheus is a fantastic solution for this, but like @jpkrohling said there should be a lot of options to scrape and store an OpenMetrics endpoint.

Grafana supports most popular time series databases out of the box so regardless of what you choose @yeqown you should be able to visualize it with Grafana.

[yeqown]

@jpkrohling right, I'm talking about monitoring Jaeger. Thank you all to resolve my confusion @jpkrohling @joe-elliott and I have learned some useful knowledge about OpenMetrics. The way to resolve my question is choosing an option to scrape /metrics endpoint... right?