Grafana - Capabilities and Limitations
Discover the capabilities and limitations of Public Cloud Databases for Grafana
Last updated January 19th, 2023
Objective
This page provides the technical capabilities and limitations of the Public Cloud Databases for Grafana offer.
We continuously improve our offers. You can follow and submit ideas to add to our roadmap at https://github.com/ovh/public-cloud-roadmap/projects/2.
Capabilities and limitations
Supported regions and multi-AZ
The Public Cloud Databases offer is available in the following regions:
BHS(Beauharnois, Canada)DE(Frankfurt, Germany)GRA(Gravelines, France)SBG(Strasbourg, France)UK(London, United Kingdom)WAW(Warsaw, Poland)
Grafana nodes have to be in the same region. Multi-AZ is currently not supported.
Grafana versions
The Public Cloud Databases offer supports the following Grafana versions:
- Grafana 9.1
You can follow the Grafana Release Cycle on their official page: https://grafana.com/.
Grafana clients
You can use your browser to access your Grafana cluster.
Plans
The only plan available is Essential.
Here is an overview of the Essential plan capabilities:
| Plan | Number of nodes by default | Additional nodes |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | 1 | No |
The Essential plan offer an automatic backup retention of 2 days. It supports public or private networks (vRack).
Nodes and replicas
- Essential: the cluster is delivered with 1 node.
License type
Grafana software is under the GNU Affero General Public License, a liberal open-source license. More information on https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/grafana/main/LICENSE.
Hardware resources
Here are the node types you can choose from:
Essential plans
| Name | Disk (GB) | Cores | Memory (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
| db1-4 | n/a | 1 | 4 |
| db1-7 | n/a | 2 | 7 |
Features
Network
Grafana clusters are reachable through a random port, attributed during cluster creation. Once your cluster is in RUNNING status, the Service URI will display the port to use.
Public as well as private networking (vRack) can be used for all the offers.
Ingress and Egress traffic are included in the service plans and unmetered.
Private network considerations
Here are some considerations to take into account when using private network:
- Network ports are created in the private network of your choice. Thus, further operations on that network might be restricted - e.g. you won’t be able to delete the network if you didn’t stop the Public Cloud Databases services first.
- When connecting from outside subnet, Openstack IP gateway must be enabled in the subnet use for the Database service. The customer is responsible for any other custom network setup.
Backups
Essential plan clusters are automatically backed up daily during their backup window. Backup retention is 1 day.
Logs and metrics
Logs and metrics are available via the OVHcloud Public Cloud Control Panel. As of today, you can't export logs and metrics, nor plug them into a remote tool.
- Logs retention: 1000 lines of logs
- Metrics retention: 1 calendar month
Please note that if the database instance is deleted, logs and metrics are also automatically deleted.
Users and roles
Creation of users must be done through the Grafana Web interface.
Only one user is created by default and its name is admin. You must reset its password to connect for the first time to the Grafana web interface.
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