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Node.js Monitoring Template

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  • 1 Dashboard: Node.js Application Monitoring
  • 2 Variables: Node_Service, and Node_Host

Quick Install

If you have your InfluxDB credentials configured in the CLI, you can install this template with:

https://github.com/influxdata/community-templates/tree/master/Node.js/Node.js.yml
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Node.js application monitoring dashboard

Node.js is an open-source, event-driven JavaScript runtime designed to build scalable network applications. Node.js lets developers use JavaScript to write command line tools and for server-side scripting — running scripts server-side to produce dynamic web page content before the page is sent to the user's web browser.

Why monitor Node.js

When monitoring Node.js, you can track your applications’ performance and availability by finding bottlenecks and fixing errors. You can identify issues by specifically looking at metrics like Process memory usage, Average response time, CPU usage, and more. If you add monitoring of the other components of your entire stack, you will gain a comprehensive view of what could be impacting application performance. With over 300+ Telegraf plugins, you can easily collect key metrics to help you get that view into your application.

Monitoring tools like the Node.js Monitoring Template are better equipped to monitor an applications' performance and availability than Node.js itself. The Node.js Monitoring Template helps you find bottlenecks and similar issues by analyzing each web result. At that point, it can point out the problem at the code level — allowing you to track down and fix those issues before they negatively impact end user experience.

How to use Node.js Monitoring Template

This template provides simple monitoring of Node.js application. Dashboard is showing basic process metrics and response time of http requests including response code. The process metrics are generated from process.memoryUsage(), process.cpuUsage() and process.resourceUsage() functions.

Once your InfluxDB credentials have been properly configured in the CLI, you can install the Node.js monitoring template using the Quick Install command. Once installed, copy monitor.js and env.js files, update InfluxDB credentials in env.js and register monitor.js code — see the following example:

const onboardInfluxDB = require('./influxdb/onboarding')
const {logEnvironment, INFLUX_URL} = require('./env')
const monitor = require('./monitor')

async function startApplication() {
  const app = express()

  // monitor application
  monitor(app)

  ...
}

Key node.js application metrics to monitor

Some of the most important Node.js monitoring metrics that you should proactively monitor include:

  • Process memory usage
  • Average response time
  • CPU usage
  • Maximum response time
  • Current heap usage
  • Array buffers
  • File System IO

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