Further enhancements for external Grafana use cases.

[totallyGreg]

Gloo Edge Product

Enterprise

Gloo Edge Version

v1.15.7

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

General Improvements

• All target queries need to be able to distinguish where the metrics are gathered (i.e. dev, sat, prod), otherwise all environments are aggregated into a single meaningless metric number. Specify dynamic Grafana dashboard datasources and dashboard prefix using helm value · Issue #2132 · solo-io/gloo · GitHub

• Improve Grafana queries by adding multi-cluster support to distinguish between installed environments · Issue #9016 · solo-io/gloo · GitHub

• Setting defaultDashboardFolderId should apply to all dashboards (both static and dynamic) Jesus created this: defaultDashboardFolderId setting is not working for static dashboards · Issue #6536 · solo-io/gloo · GitHub

• allow specifying `observability.customGrafana.apiKey` as secret reference instead of string · Issue #9017 · solo-io/gloo · GitHub

  • possibly related to ApiKeys Integration Techincal Debt #5451 and the need to support the k8sSecretApiKeyStorage api
  • Optionally disable creating grafana secret · Issue #2629 · solo-io/gloo · GitHub

• Helm/gloo-ee: observability deployment not convenient · Issue #7079 · solo-io/gloo · GitHub

  • customer provided detailing issues with documentation, secrets and failure to start observability pod when it can't connect to external Grafana

• Document the correct helm overrides. solo-io.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/3024 Needs Github Issue. Once it's determined what they should be.

Override Improvements

• Custom Labels for Grafana dashboards' configmap · Issue #5845 · solo-io/gloo · GitHub
• Add kubeResourceOverrides to allow labeling remaining Gloo Edge pods · Issue #5716 · solo-io/gloo · GitHub
• Specifying private registry for grafana, configmap-reload, prometheus, kube-state-metrics, ext-auth-service · Issue #5199 · solo-io/gloo · GitHub
  • This may no longer relevant since Provide Helm Chart Overrides · Issue #5622 · solo-io/gloo · GitHub was closed

Documentation Improvements

• Add configuration detail section in GE doc for configuring with existing (external) Grafana · Issue #7110 · solo-io/gloo · GitHub
• Dynamic dashboards should still be configurable as a group as well as individually. Peter created this to Document the ability store the custom dashboards generated for upstreams into folders other than general · Issue #5853 · solo-io/gloo · GitHub

Metric Improvements

• xds-relay - inconsistent metrics · Issue #5727 · solo-io/gloo · GitHub

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