Astra + Grafana

Grafana is a convenient monitoring service. In this article, we will review the process of setting up Astra and Grafana to collect and analyze statistics.

Install Influxdb

cd /tmp
wget https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb_1.7.3_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i influxdb_1.7.3_amd64.deb

After installation, run the service:
```
service influxdb start
```
Connect to influxdb:
```
influx -precision rfc3339
```
Create a database:
```
CREATE DATABASE Astra
exit
```

Install Grafana

Install:

cd /tmp
wget https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana_6.0.2_amd64.deb 
sudo dpkg -i grafana_6.0.2_amd64.deb

After installation, run the service:
```
service grafana-server start
```
Go to http://server_ip:3000 -the web interface should open. The default login and password is admin/admin
Connect influxdb: Click the Data Sources -> Add Data Source button to open the db settings menu. write on there:
```
Name: Astra
Type: InfluxDB
URL: http://grafana-server-IP:8086 (or localhost)
Database: Astra
```
Click the Add button. You should see a green sign saying that the connection status is OK.
- Download dashboard for streams or dashboard for dvb-adapters and import it: Click the button
  Dashboards -> Import.
- Create a folder "/etc/astra/mod", put the script in it event.lua
- In the web interface Astra prescribe the address to influxdb: (http://grafana-server-IP:8086/write?db=Astra#interval=60&total=1)
- Channel names are taken from the ID field and are specified without spaces: (example: id: "old_tv")
- Restarting Astra