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Mixed Sources Report

Put Kibana, Grafana and any web page into one report.

Goal​

Every Monday at 8:00, send leadership one weekly summary with:

  • the application traffic, from a Kibana dashboard;
  • the infrastructure health, from a Grafana dashboard;
  • the state of an outside service, from its public status page.

Use cases​

  • Executive summaries that pull from more than one monitoring tool
  • Incident reports that cross platforms
  • One operational view for teams that use different tools

Steps​

1. Create the job​

  1. Open Jobs in the sidebar.
  2. Click Create Job, then Create New.

2. General​

  • Frequency: every week on Monday at 8:00 (Advanced: 0 8 * * 1).

The General tab: a weekly frequency on Monday at 8:00

3. Capture​

Switch on Advanced. Each source is a Navigate action with Take snapshot ticked. Give each snapshot a name, so you can tell them apart in Compose:

The capture flow: three Navigate actions, for Kibana, Grafana and a status page, each with its snapshot

  1. Kibana: web traffic
    • Connector: Kibana.
    • URL: the dashboard, for example https://kibana.example.com/app/dashboards#/view/application-metrics.
    • Auth type: the method your Kibana needs, for example ReadonlyREST.
  2. Grafana: wind farm
    • Connector: Grafana.
    • URL: the dashboard, with its time range, for example https://grafana.example.com/d/xyz789/infrastructure-health?orgId=1&from=now-7d&to=now.
    • Auth type: Grafana, with its credentials.
  3. Status page
    • Connector: Web, for any page that is not Kibana or Grafana.
    • URL: for example https://www.githubstatus.com.
    • Auth type: None.

Each Navigate has its own connector and credentials, so one job can read from several Kibana and Grafana instances.

4. Compose​

Put a heading above each snapshot, so the reader knows where each part comes from:

<h1>Weekly operations summary</h1>
<p>Week of {{ metaData.createdAt | date: "%d %B %Y" }}</p>

The Compose tab: a title, then a heading and a snapshot for each of the three sources

5. Deliver​

Choose a delivery interface and the recipients.

The Deliver tab: an SMTP interface and the leadership address

Result​

One PDF with the three sources, one after the other:

The weekly summary: the Kibana web traffic dashboard, the Grafana wind farm dashboard and the GitHub status page

Next steps​