InterSystems IRIS Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

This repository provides the necessary files to set up monitoring for InterSystems IRIS in Kubernetes using Prometheus and Grafana. It includes a custom CSP page for exposing additional IRIS metrics, a Grafana dashboard, and a Prometheus configuration.

Contents

• dashboard.json – Pre-configured Grafana dashboard for IRIS metrics.
• custom-metrics.xml – CSP-based custom metrics endpoint for additional insights.
• values.yaml – Prometheus configuration for scraping IRIS metrics.

Setup Instructions

1. Deploy Prometheus & Grafana

   helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
   helm repo update
   helm install monitoring prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack -n monitoring --create-namespace -f values.yaml
   

2. Import Custom Metrics into IRIS

   • Import custom-metrics.xml via the InterSystems Management Portal.
   • Create a web application and configure /metrics as the CSP page.

3. Update Prometheus Targets (in values.yaml)

4. Import the Grafana Dashboard

   • Open Grafana and import dashboard.json via Dashboards > Import.