Add panels for app vs edge region usage

[leighmcculloch]

It'd be useful to have in the HTTP section of the default dashboard panels that show edge and app region requests.

I have a couple panels that do this that could be included and might be helpful to others.

App HTTP Count by Region (2xx)

Panel JSON

{
  "id": 37,
  "gridPos": {
    "h": 5,
    "w": 6,
    "x": 0,
    "y": 1
  },
  "type": "bargauge",
  "title": "App HTTP Count by Region (2xx)",
  "pluginVersion": "8.2.2-39068",
  "maxDataPoints": 1,
  "fieldConfig": {
    "defaults": {
      "thresholds": {
        "mode": "percentage",
        "steps": [
          {
            "color": "dark-green",
            "value": null
          },
          {
            "color": "semi-dark-green",
            "value": 25
          },
          {
            "color": "light-green",
            "value": 50
          },
          {
            "color": "super-light-green",
            "value": 75
          }
        ]
      },
      "mappings": [],
      "color": {
        "mode": "thresholds"
      }
    },
    "overrides": []
  },
  "options": {
    "reduceOptions": {
      "values": false,
      "calcs": [
        "last"
      ],
      "fields": ""
    },
    "orientation": "vertical",
    "text": {},
    "displayMode": "gradient",
    "showUnfilled": true
  },
  "targets": [
    {
      "expr": "sort_desc(\n  sum(\n    increase(fly_app_http_responses_count{app=\"$app\",status=~\"2[0-9][0-9]\"}[$__range])\n  )by(region)\n)",
      "legendFormat": "{{region}}",
      "interval": "",
      "exemplar": true,
      "hide": false,
      "instant": true,
      "refId": "B"
    }
  ],
  "interval": null,
  "timeFrom": null,
  "timeShift": null,
  "datasource": null
}

Edge HTTP Count by Region (2xx)

Panel JSON

{
  "id": 36,
  "gridPos": {
    "h": 5,
    "w": 18,
    "x": 6,
    "y": 1
  },
  "type": "bargauge",
  "title": "Edge HTTP Count by Region (2xx)",
  "pluginVersion": "8.2.2-39068",
  "maxDataPoints": 1,
  "fieldConfig": {
    "defaults": {
      "thresholds": {
        "mode": "percentage",
        "steps": [
          {
            "color": "dark-green",
            "value": null
          },
          {
            "color": "semi-dark-green",
            "value": 25
          },
          {
            "color": "light-green",
            "value": 50
          },
          {
            "color": "super-light-green",
            "value": 75
          }
        ]
      },
      "mappings": [],
      "color": {
        "mode": "thresholds"
      }
    },
    "overrides": []
  },
  "options": {
    "reduceOptions": {
      "values": false,
      "calcs": [
        "sum"
      ],
      "fields": ""
    },
    "orientation": "auto",
    "text": {},
    "displayMode": "lcd",
    "showUnfilled": true
  },
  "targets": [
    {
      "expr": "sort_desc(\n  sum(\n    increase(fly_edge_http_responses_count{app=\"$app\",status=~\"2[0-9][0-9]\"}[$__range])\n  )by(region)\n)",
      "legendFormat": "{{region}}",
      "interval": "",
      "exemplar": true,
      "format": "time_series",
      "hide": false,
      "instant": true,
      "intervalFactor": 1,
      "refId": "A"
    }
  ],
  "interval": null,
  "timeFrom": null,
  "timeShift": null,
  "datasource": null
}

[jeromegn]

Nice!

I suppose this could be useful for some people. Why did you find it helpful?

We tend to look at requests rates a lot more than actual count, internally and in our customer-facing dashboards. We use increase only for things like errors returned by our proxy.

[leighmcculloch]

I added it in prep for moving a couple sites from AWS+GCP. I'm unsure of what region to select.

I could make a guess, but since Fly exposes the edge metrics it's trivial to see which regions people are entering the Fly network. Helps me identify that oh, it might be worthwhile deploying in this other region since a decent amount of visitors are coming from there.

I added the app metrics mostly so that it is easy to see side-by-side the difference if any noticeable difference exists. Also to highlight if there's under utilization of any region that is maybe not worth it.

[leighmcculloch]

Rates make sense 👍🏻. I was using that initially, but wanted to test the graphs on a low traffic site I'm testing Fly with, and it was easier to understand the graphs without rate.