Cross Service Integration

Last updated October 19th, 2022

Objective

Cross Service Integration allows you to expose your Public Cloud Databases Logs and Metrics.

This guide explains how to use Cross Service Integration.

Requirements

• A Public Cloud project in your OVHcloud account
• A database running on your OVHcloud Public Cloud Databases (this guide can help you to meet this requirement)
• Access to your OVHcloud Control Panel or to the OVHcloud API

Concept

The Cross Service Integrations for Logs and Metrics allow you for example:

• To send Redis or MySQL metrics or Cassandra metrics in M3db or PostgreSQL.
• To send PostgreSQL or MySQL metrics to OpenSearch.
• To show metrics in Grafana.

For that you need:

• A source service
• A destination service

Integration matrix

• All services support logs to opensearch & kafka_logs to kafka.
• All services except m3db & m3agg support metrics to pg & metrics to m3db.

Other integrations:

source → ↓ destination	grafana	m3db	kafka
pg	dashboard, datasource
opensearch	datasource
m3db	dashboard, datasource
m3agg		m3agg
kmm			kafka_mirrormaker
kc			kafka_connect

Instructions

Using the OVHcloud Control Panel

Store yours logs or metrics

Log in to your OVHcloud Control Panel and open your Public Cloud project. Click on Databases in the left-hand navigation bar, select your engine instance and open the Service integration tab.

Click on Add an integration:

Define the Integration type and the Destination service:

Your first integration is ready:

Allow metrics visualization into Grafana

Go to the Service integration tab of your Destination service service and click on Add an integration

Define grafanaDashboard as Integration type and the Source service:

Your second integration is ready:

Connect to your Grafana instance and browse the dashboards:

Then open your new dashboard:

Using API

Get your service and cluster IDs

You first need to identify your serviceId and your clusterId.

Get the desired service ID

Execute the following API call:

From the resulting list, select and copy the service identifier corresponding to the desired service, also known as serviceName.

Get the desired cluster ID

Open the following API call, paste your service ID into the serviceName input field and click Execute:

Get integration capabilities

Get integration capabilities related to your Public Cloud Databases service:

Store yours logs or metrics

As a first step, you need to push your metrics or logs somewhere, in order to store them and retrieve the metrics with Grafana.

For that, you need to create a new integration:

Fill in the form with the information corresponding to the type of integration chosen.

The destionationServiceId and the sourceServiceId correspond to the destination cluster ID and to the source cluster ID.

Allow metrics visualization into Grafana

Now that metrics are stored somewhere, you need to connect your Public Cloud Databases service to a Grafana service.

For that, first create a Public Cloud Database for Grafana via our Control Panel or API.

Once done, get the GrafanaDashboard integration capability related to the destination service:

Then create a second integration from your Destination service name:

Connect to your Grafana instance and browse the dashboards:

Then open your new dashboard:

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