Monitoring LoRa Gateway Bridge with DataDog

README.md

Monitoring LoRa Gateway Bridge using DataDog

• Install the DataDog Agent following the instructions on the DataDog website
• Update the lora-gateway-bridge configuration file with the lines on this gist
• Create /etc/datadog-agent/conf.d/prometheus.d/conf.yaml with the content from this gist
• Restart the lora-gateway-bridge and datadog-agent services
• Check that the metrics are being collected by running datadog-agent check prometheus

conf.yaml

# /etc/datadog-agent/conf.d/prometheus.d/conf.yaml
init_config:

instances:
  - prometheus_url: http://127.0.0.1:5609
    namespace: "lora-gateway-bridge"
    metrics:
      - gw_backend_mqtt_event_count: mqtt_events
      - gw_backend_mqtt_connect_duration_seconds: mqtt_connection_duration

lora-gateway-bridge.toml

## /etc/lora-gateway-bridge/lora-gateway-bridge.toml
##### ADD THIS AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR CONFIGURATION FILE #####
# Metrics configuration.
[metrics]

  # Metrics stored in Prometheus.
  #
  # These metrics expose information about the state of the LoRa Gateway Bridge
  # instance like number of messages processed, number of function calls, etc.
  [metrics.prometheus]
  # Expose Prometheus metrics endpoint.
  endpoint_enabled=true

  # The ip:port to bind the Prometheus metrics server to for serving the
  # metrics endpoint.
  bind="127.0.0.1:5609"