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How to monitor Messaging and Queuing with Scaleway Cockpit

Reviewed on 03 October 2023 • Published on 07 September 2023

You can view your Messaging and Queuing metrics via Scaleway Cockpit. This allows you to monitor your queues/streams and messages at a glance. There are three steps to complete to view your Messaging and Queuing metrics for the first time with Cockpit:

  1. Activate your Cockpit
  2. Generate your Grafana credentials
  3. Access the Messaging and Queuing metrics dashboard

These steps are described below.

Security & Identity (IAM):

You may need certain IAM permissions to carry out some actions described on this page. This means:

  • you are the Owner of the Scaleway Organization in which the actions will be carried out, or
  • you are an IAM user of the Organization, with a policy granting you the necessary permission sets
Requirements:

How to activate your Cockpit

Scaleway Cockpit is deactivated by default. To activate it, follow the procedure detailed in the Cockpit documentation.

How to generate Grafana credentials

To view your Messaging and Queuing metrics with Cockpit, you will use a Grafana dashboard which is accessible from the Scaleway console. First, you must create a user and their associated credentials (a username and password) for Grafana. This can be done directly from the Scaleway console, by following this procedure.

How to access your Messaging and Queuing dashboard and view your metrics

  1. Click Messaging in the Serverless section of the Scaleway console side menu.

  2. Click the protocol you want to view metrics for, and navigate to the Metrics tab.

  3. Click Open Grafana metrics dashboard.

  4. Enter your Grafana username and password to log in.

    You are directed to the dashboard for Messaging and Queuing, where you can view all your metrics.

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