Visualization
Lightbend monitoring supports visualizations in the form of dashboards which presents metrics and events data. At the time of this writing, our dashboard efforts are still a work in progress, but here is what we support so far:
Grafana
Lightbend Monitoring provides five predefined dashboard templates that one can import into Grafana:
- Actor metrics: different metrics for actors
- Actor events: e.g. dead letters, unhandled messages
- Spans: information about spans programmatically added
- JVM information: heap and garbage collection information
- Lagom circuit breakers: circuit breaker status and metrics
Following is an example dashboard for Actor and JVM information:
Kibana
Grafana is ideal for visualizing metric data, but when it comes to time event based data, Elasticsearch with Kibana is the standard.
Following is an example dashboard for Kibana: