Monitoring HBase using MapR SpyGlass

MapR 5.2 comes with SpyGlass. This feature can be used to gather many useful information for monitoring. Following explains how ti setup a sample dashboard for HBase monitoring in Grafana.

For more details on SpyGlass, refer http://maprdocs.mapr.com/home/AdministratorGuide/Monitoring.html

Steps to setup HBase monitoring dashboard in Grafana

Step 1:  Login to Grafana

Step 2: Go to node dashboard (I have a single node)

Step 3: Add Panel -> Add Graph

Step 4: Click on General, add a name for the graph, here I gave ‘HBaseRegionServerTracker’

Step 5: Click on ‘Metrics’, in the ‘Metric’ column search for mapr.hbase* metrics and add suitable metric you need.

Step 6: I selected ‘mapr.hbase_master.region_servers’ and then save the dashboard