TSDB Gateway

This gateway provides access to the Hosted Metrics Graphite service at Grafana Labs, powered by Metrictank.

tsdb-gw

• Uses basic auth to verify requests. The username defaults to api_key, username: api_key The password is either a grafana.com api_key or a key located in the file auth, password: <api_key> Forwards metric and data requests to metrictank via a MetrictankProxy and a GraphiteProxy Handles ingestion with the corresponding plugin, but typical deployments all publish into Kafka. Available http routes

• rate limiter

persister-gw

Available http routes TODO. @jtlisi

Ingestion support

1. "metrics2.0" payloads in json or messagepack over http.
2. Carbon
3. Prometheus Remote Write
4. OpenTSDB HTTP write
5. DataDog JSON

Authentication

Every request (whether for ingest, data, etc) is authenticated via grafana.com accounts/apikeys.

Plugins:

• FileAuth
• GrafanaComInstanceAuth
• GrafanaComAuth
• GCom

TODO @woodsaj describe the various plugins/methods, org vs instance, and the best practices, special admin keys, etc TODO @woodsaj If auth works the same for the 3 services mentioned above, remove the auth stuff from their description

If you have more questions about authentication, ping @woodsaj and ask him to update this.