19 lines
1.1 KiB
Markdown
19 lines
1.1 KiB
Markdown
# CNCF Perses Native Analytics Architecture
|
|
|
|
## Why Perses over Standalone Grafana?
|
|
|
|
Traditional NAS appliances that provide telemetry either bundle a heavy standalone Grafana instance (which requires its own SQLite/PostgreSQL database, user accounts, and separate session cookies) or write rudimentary, un-configurable charts into their dashboard.
|
|
|
|
NaxOS takes a pioneering approach by integrating **Perses** (a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project):
|
|
|
|
1. **GitOps & Declarative Native**:
|
|
- Perses dashboards and datasources are written in clean JSON/CUE manifests.
|
|
- Dashboards are checked into `/var/lib/perses/projects/naxos/dashboards` as code.
|
|
2. **Embedded Direct Visualization**:
|
|
- The NaxOS Web Dashboard communicates with the internal Perses metrics API.
|
|
- Eliminates Grafana's multi-megabyte bundle overhead, auth barriers, and database schema migrations.
|
|
3. **Optimized for OpenZFS Metrics**:
|
|
- Out-of-the-box panels monitor OpenZFS ARC hits, misses, ARC target sizing, IOPS, and disk latencies scraped from Prometheus and Node Exporter.
|
|
|
|
|