How to deploy grafana on App Engine ?

[Deepak Natanmai]

I have downloaded tar.gz of grafana and uploaded to app engine ? What's next ?

[Olu]

From your comment, I am not absolutely clear about the assistance required. I believe you are attempting to deploy Grafana to GCP. I understand Grafana is an open source tool for monitoring and metric analytics for computer systems, however, I need more understanding as to what you are attempting. 

If your plan is simply to use the Open source tool, you could launch it from the marketplace[1] on your GCP Console. Or am I missing something? Please provide more information about what you are trying to do and if you obtained an error attempting it. 

[1]http://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/

[Olu]

Please do not hesitate to include any documentation you may be following.

[Deepak Natanmai]

Hey,

I'm able to install grafana on GCE easily using package manager like yum for cent os or apt-get for ubuntu.
Now the question here is, I have grafana installed and working in GCE, how should i deploy this grafana on GAE ?
Grafana provide a tar.gz file, which i have downloaded which contains grafana source code, now only uploading this to GAE won't work, there is a grafana-server service which i need to run once deployed.

So how should i do this ?

[Deepak Natanmai]

Hey Team,

I have uploaded grafana docker to GAE, but now it's throwing error 502, help me to fix this.

With help of this document I pulled grafana docker, and pushed to container registry and gcloud app deploy --image-url=<registry-url>
https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/docs/pushing-and-pulling#pushing_an_image_to_a_registry
https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/docs/using-with-google-cloud-platform#deploying_to

[Olu]

Thank you for providing more information and context to your inquiry. 

About 502 errors that you got, there might be a number of reasons for the errors[1]. Often times, this would require review of your logs to understand what may have caused requests to your App Engine applications to return the 502s. For example, as explained in this documentation[2], an App Engine 502 Bad Gateway would be returned if your App Engine Flexible application is running at a higher memory than is configured. App Engine would terminate the application if that is observed.

For better troubleshooting or evaluation of this issue, which may involve reviewing configurations on your Project, I recommend you contact the GCP Support Engineers[3] or if you think this issue is a bug then open an issue using this link[4].

[1]https://serverfault.com/questions/951189/seeing-502-on-google-app-engine#answer-961560

[2]https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/openapi/troubleshoot-response-errors#error_message_bad_gateway

[3]https://cloud.google.com/support-hub

[4]https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/#public_users

[Deepak Natanmai]

Hey,

While seeing error logs I got this :

[error] 33#33: *157365 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 2134:6801:4027:81e::2014, server: , request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://<IP>:8080/favicon.ico", host: "<app>", referrer: "http://<app>.appspot.com/"

Grafana by default listens on port 3000, so is it fine ? or should it be changed to 8080 ?

[Olu]

Applications running on App Engine are expected to listen on 8080. As advised on this doc[1] "The App Engine front end will route incoming requests to the appropriate module on port 8080. You must be sure that your application code is listening on 8080"

[1]https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/custom-runtimes/build#listening_to_port_8080