Monitoring and Metrics Exporting using HiveMQ Operator

Owned by Harsh Bansal

Last updated: Feb 26, 2024

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1 Enabling the service
2 Configure monitoring
3 Exporting the metrics to share with the support team using HiveMQ Exporter tool
4 Next steps

Prequisites:

Access to infrastructure with Kubectl. E.g.
- AKS: Setting up Azure Kubernetes Cluster for HiveMQ Operator | Manage the cluster
- EKS: Setting up EKS Cluster in Amazon Web Services(AWS)
Running HiveMQ Cluster Install HiveMQ using Kubernetes Operator
Values.yaml file Install HiveMQ using Kubernetes Operator | Add Helm repository and download values.yaml file
Kubectl, Helm and MQTT CLI Prerequisite - Software Packages

Enabling the service

Update the following values in values.yaml file to true, this exposes Prometheus and Grafana services.

monitoring:
  dedicated: true
  enabled: true

Save the file and apply the changes

helm upgrade hivemq --install hivemq/hivemq-operator --values values.yaml

Now run the following command to check the restarted services, the Prometheus and Grafana services should be running as shown in the screenshot

kubernetes get services

Configure monitoring

To access the Grafana dashboard, forward the Grafana port to your local machine:

To open your Grafana dashboard, go to http://localhost:8081
Log in with the default login credentials: username: admin, password: prom-operator.
Go to Dashboards>Browse and select the HiveMQ Cluster dashboard to view the most important HiveMQ metrics

Exporting the metrics to share with the support team using HiveMQ Exporter tool

Please use the following KB to export the relevant metrics with HiveMQ Support team for debugging issues.

KB article: Export HiveMQ Metrics from either Prometheus or a Grafana Datasource

Next steps