Sending job failure notifications to Grafana dashboard

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Hi,

I would like to send job failure notifications from AWX to Grafana dashboard (Grafana version 8.4). In the Grafana side, should I need to configure datasource (Postgres) or just creating a dashboard is enough ?

On the AWX side, I will provide Grafana URL, API key.

Since this is kind of a push mechanism (AWX to Grafana), I don’t see the point of creating datasource in Grafana. Please help me to clarify this. Are there any KB articles for the same ?

There is one article on this subject in Ansible site but does not have full information.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/userguide/notifications.html#grafana

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Hi @amvj the doc you link is for tower 3.8 which is… ancient

https://ansible.readthedocs.io/projects/awx/en/latest/userguide/notifications.html#grafana

here’s the latest doc on the topic.

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@TheRealHaoLiu
@amvj
While that doc does show the few steps to set up a grafana notification in AWX - I believe the original question was more to do with how does grafana accept the incoming data from AWX?

There is no such data source plugin in grafana to add ansible

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Hello,
I played a bit, and managed to retrieve the notifications sent from AAP/AWX after setting up a grafana-testdata-datasource; then you can explore in Scenario => Grafana API, Endpoint => Annotations to retrieve the messages. Not sure however this is a reliable way to exploit all these messages, I fell the messages should be sent to a third party source, and then queried by Grafana.