Monitoring and visualization

In Consul, metrics collection is available in different file formats. These metrics are used to monitor and visualize the health and stability of services, servers, clients, and communication protocols within a data center for every cluster and its designated nodes.

In this section, we will explore the monitoring and log collection method using Telegraf and then visualize the data using Grafana.

Telegraf

Using the StatsD protocol, a plugin called Telegraf enables monitoring and metrics collection in Consul. StatsD (https://github.com/statsd/statsd) is a daemon that summarizes and aggregates key application metrics.

Telegraf collects metrics about the specific host where the Consul agent is deployed...