Setup Grafana for monitoring a CNSA cluster in a k8s OCP environment

Starting with CNSA 5.1.1.2 the IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge for Grafana could be deployed as a Custom Resource within the IBM Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) cluster via the IBM Spectrum Scale Operator. Please check Configuring IBM Spectrum® Scale Operator documentation, for the detailed instructions how to enable the deployment of the grafanaBridge Custom Resource.

You still need to deploy a Grafana instance and add the IBM Spectrum Scale performance monitoring bridge for Grafana to the Grafana Datasource manually. To solve this problem, you can use the RedHat community-powered Grafana operator provided by Openshift OperatorHub. The work to be done can be broken down into the following steps:

• Installing Grafana Operator from OperatorHub
• Creating Grafana instance
• Creating Grafana Data Source

The deployment scripts are stored in the sub-folder example_deployment_scripts and could be invoked by performing the steps above directly.