I am curious if signoz exposes API that can be integrated in

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I am curious if signoz exposes API that can be integrated into Grafana

Pranay · Answer

hey < Didip Kerabat> welcome to SigNoz community I don t think there is a way to expose an API which can be consumed by Grafana but curious on what use case you are targeting here

Didip Kerabat · Answer

We like the idea of warehousing the metrics in Druid or Clickhouse but for a company that already an existing Grafana infrastructure it is simply easier to experiment with Signoz if such APi exists

Didip Kerabat · Answer

Another question is your charting API SVG based or Canvas based We have a lot of points to plot and usually SVG charts struggled to load them

Pranay · Answer

gt Another question is your charting API SVG based or Canvas based We have a lot of points to plot and usually SVG charts struggled to load them I think our charting is Canvas based though < Palash Gupta> can confirm

Pranay · Answer

gt We like the idea of warehousing the metrics in Druid or Clickhouse but for a company that already an existing Grafana infrastructure it is simply easier to experiment with Signoz if such APi exists I think if you are using SigNoz primarily for Observability metrics traces etc you will find it to be much more powerful But can understand if an org already uses Grafana Dashboards they might find it easy to adjust to it Would be great if you can created a feature request <https github com SigNoz signoz issues new choose|here> and we can check if there is more interest in the community on this

Pranay · Answer

btw if metrics is the main thing you are interested in < Didip Kerabat> you may find SigNoz dashboards to be very powerful as we support native clickhouse queries which follows SQL format

Pranay · Answer

also out of curiousity why do you prefer Druid ClickHouse for metrics I think prometheus works pretty well with Grafana what issues do you see with that

Didip Kerabat · Answer

< Pranay> filed

Pranay · Answer

thanks slightly smiling face

Didip Kerabat · Answer

< Pranay> My company has huge amount of metrics FAANG amount of volume something that Prometheus and Influx struggles to handle

Didip Kerabat · Answer

We also already built huge Druid clusters in house so we want to leverage the same expertise for our Application metrics

Pranay · Answer

Got it Though we have deprecated support to Druid now Only ClickHouse is supported by default

Didip Kerabat · Answer

Also I saw a number of your Youtube videos great job on that by the way I just want to confirm that integration with PagerDuty for alerts is supported yes

Didip Kerabat · Answer

Noooo Druid support is deprecated

Didip Kerabat · Answer

kk need to update my notes then

Pranay · Answer

Yeah we had support for Druid earlier but it was tough to run for people to get started

Didip Kerabat · Answer

I guess it makes sense for a small team to focus on 1 thing

Pranay · Answer

Yeah Pagerduty is supported <https www pagerduty com integrations >

Pranay · Answer

Yeah focus was the primary reason slightly smiling face

Pranay · Answer

Though some members from Pinot community have recently been able to run SigNoz with Pinto as backend

Pranay · Answer

So if you can t test with ClickHouse and are up for changing some Go code it should be possible to do

Didip Kerabat · Answer

< Pranay> Before you delete the Druid backend can you please consider preserving that legacy code in a branch We also have a lot of Go experts in house if SigNoz works out we may be able to help maintain the Druid backend But it is too early to tell at the moment

Pranay · Answer

I think the Druid code should be available in the earlier releases let me dig which release Though we have made lots of advancement in the ClickHouse version so it should be more advanced < Didip Kerabat> I guess one way could be that you test default SigNoz version first which comes with ClickHouse datastore by default and if it suits your need from features UI perspective we can think about how Druid as a datastore can be enabled or how tough it would be

Didip Kerabat · Answer

Sounds good we should experiment and play with it first

Pranay · Answer

cool Feel free to ping here or in < C01HWQ1R0BC|support> if you have any questions

Pranay · Answer

also adding < Ankit Nayan> here if you have any more insights on this

Ankit Nayan · Answer

< Didip Kerabat> hey wave The backend APIs are interface so adding multiple DBs should be easy Just start adding APIs which fit your usecase Though we have moved a long way in clickhouse in terms of features Feel free to ask discuss anything