Grafana

Component Category

Monitoring and debugging / visualization

Grafana is the visualization and dashboarding layer for metrics, logs, and traces. BullSequana AI provisions platform dashboards from labeled Kubernetes ConfigMap resources and configures Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo as the core data sources.

Why It Is Used

In BullSequana AI Foundation, Grafana gives operators a common interface for platform health, service metrics, logs, and distributed traces. Component-specific dashboards complement the cluster-wide Kubernetes views.

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Dashboard provisioning

Grafana discovers dashboards from ConfigMap resources labeled with grafana_dashboard=1. Components own their dashboards in their own namespaces, so installing or removing a platform component updates the available dashboard set without changing the Grafana release.

Start with the Kubernetes global, namespace, or node views when the affected service is not yet known. Use the component dashboard after narrowing the problem to a specific subsystem, then correlate the metrics with Loki logs or Tempo traces.

BullSequana AI 1.3 dashboard inventory

Cluster and storage

Kubernetes / Views / Global
Kubernetes / Views / Namespaces
Kubernetes / Views / Nodes
Kubernetes / Views / Pods
Kubernetes / System / API Server
Kubernetes / System / CoreDNS
Kubernetes / Persistent Volumes
Kubernetes / Storage Usage
Namespace Monitoring
CNPG
CloudNativePG

The two PostgreSQL dashboards are separate operational views: CNPG focuses on the deployed database cluster, while CloudNativePG covers operator and cluster-level telemetry.

Networking, security, and policy

Envoy Gateway
cert-manager
External Secrets Operator
Istio Service Mesh
Kyverno Policy Engine
Keycloak capacity planning dashboard
Keycloak troubleshooting dashboard
OpenBao
OpenFGA

Delivery and workflows

ArgoCD
Argo Workflows Metrics
Argo Events EventBus
Temporal Server Metrics

Observability and hardware

Prometheus
Grafana Alloy
Loki Kubernetes Logs
NVIDIA DCGM Exporter

AI and data services

KServe Controller
KServe LLMInferenceService
Kubeflow Pipelines
LiteLLM Proxy
MLflow Tracking
Milvus - Data Path
Milvus - Query Path
Strimzi Kafka Operator

Deployment notes

Grafana deploys as part of the kube-prometheus-stack chart in the grafana namespace at sync wave 9 in the common tier. Grafana uses the CNPG PostgreSQL cluster for its own state and authenticates through Keycloak OIDC.

Interacts With

Prometheus, which provides the platform metrics data source.
Grafana Loki, which provides the platform log data source.
Grafana Tempo, which provides the platform trace data source.
Keycloak, which provides OIDC authentication and role mapping.
PostgreSQL, which stores Grafana state and configuration.
Platform components, which provision their dashboards through labeled ConfigMap resources.