This is continuing post of Live Performance Dashboard only this time with windows(as I have promised). I would suggest, please visit that post to continue.

In this example, I am going to setup influxdb & Grafana in windows 8x64 PC in VM. You can use real PC/AWS. And like as before, I will run jmeter in my local PC to test keeping monitoring system isolated. My Local Address (in this whole example) : 172.16.244.135

Note : As influxdb/grafana will be accessed from outer network, make sure you put in outbound firewall rules so that others can access this

Step 1: Installing InfluxDB :

  • Download Influxdb from here. It is standalone zip. If you extract, you will see something like this.(i renamed in to influxdb-0.11.0)

influxdb-folder

  • Now, open command prompt and get default configuration (in bin directory all exe are present)

      influxd.exe config

So, you will get default configuration.

  • Copy this to a notepad and save as influxdb.conf. [to make life easy, i save my own influxdb.conf in bin , so default one in etc, my one in bin]

  • Now, if you run this you will see error messages due to local host address resolver is not working for windows. Github discussion.. Easy to solve , add local host with port number. I change the under

      [meta]
    bind-address = "localhost:8088"
    http-bind-address = "localhost:8091"

  • Now, add graphite configuration at our influxdb.conf.

      [[graphite]]
  enabled = true
  bind-address = ":2003"
  database = "jmeter"

  • So, open command line , goto bin directory (where influxd.exe & influxdb.conf are present )

      influxd.exe -config influxdb.conf

influxdb-running

  • Now, if we goto browser and see http://172.16.244.135:8083 , we will be able to see home page.
  • Like as before , create a table ‘Jmeter’.

influxdb-running

And , if we see show database ,we should be able to see DBs. So, our influxDB setup is done.

My Windows influxdb.conf

Step 2 : Installing Grafana :

  • Download grafana standard from here . I am using 2.6.

  • Extract it in your suitable location. (i also renamed in grafana-2.6.0 to keep things simple)

  • Now , Open command line, goto bin directory under grafana-2.6.0 and execute grafana-server.exe. You will see server running.

  • Goto browser http://172.16.244.135:3000/. And you should able to see grafana home page for login prompt. use admin, admin to login

Like as previous post, configure influxDB settings into grafana.

data-source

Like as previous post, make a dashboard. (I am using same request count)

data-source

So, we are done setup, now lets test it.

Jmeter Tests :

Like as previous post , I am using same test case just changed the URL to 172.16.244.135

Now, if we run jmeter

  • goto http://172.16.244.135:8083
  • select Jmeter from right upper corner.
  • from query template SHOW MEASUREMENTS

we will see like this.

db-jmeter

This means DB is getting Data.

  • Now if we goto grafana dashboard (our dashboard name Jmeter Live ), we should be see graph for request sending

dashboard

So, Like as Ubuntu , we have completed our setup a live Jmeter result monitoring system with Grafana & InfluxDB.

Note : As I am installing in my PC, ignore my user name, for your PC , it will be your’s. So, don’t just copy past my configurations.

Thanks.. :)