Repeating Panels configuration

[markuslf]

Imagine a Grafana dashboard like this, with repeating rows (!), based on a query that reads all the disks of a host (count differs from host to host). Each row shows the same several non-repeating panels.

Am I right that the Grafana module cannot handle this today?

• If not, consider it a feature request ;-)
• If yes, please help me: How to set what value to what? Obviously "Repeating Panel=Yes", but "PanelIds=1" makes no sense here and "Metrics per panel" is impossible to guess. :-)

[Mikesch-mp]

Please read the docs, https://github.com/Mikesch-mp/icingaweb2-module-grafana/blob/master/doc/04-graph-configuration.md#auto-repeating-panels
It does nearly what you want to do. if one service delivers many perfdata, you can create a dashboard for the with one metric per panel and repeating panels/rows for the other metrics.

[markuslf]

Ok, let me use another example - network I/O on network interfaces. What I mean is:

Like with disks, the "number of metrics" is dynamic. "metrics" example for a "network-io" check:

• Host 1: eth0_bytes_recv, eth0_bytes_sent
• Host 2: ens10_bytes_recv, ens10_bytes_sent, tun0_bytes_recv, tun0_bytes_sent, eth0_bytes_recv, eth0_bytes_sent

Therefore the number of red-highlighted panel rows is also dynamic.

Screenshot 1 - Dashboard "Network I/O", host 1 with one network interface:

Screenshot 2 - the same dashboard, host 2 with multiple network interfaces:

The "Network I/O" dashboard handles that fine, but following your docs I can't figure out any numbers to configure the Grafana module for this type of dashboard properly.

[Mikesch-mp]

Works only for repeating panels, not for rows. Cant be added as feature, because there is no way to figure out the row numbers / names

[markuslf]

That's what I wanted to know, thank you, Carsten.