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GridGain 8 management and monitoring guide

Tutorial

Monitor and manage GridGain 8 clusters in production: storage and cluster health, alerts, tracing, and backups with GridGain Control Center.

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Intermediate|1-2 hours|monitoring
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This guide shows how to monitor and manage GridGain 8 clusters in production. It covers the core tasks: monitoring storage and cluster health, configuring alerts, tracing operations to troubleshoot performance, and creating cluster backups.

You work through these on a local setup: you deploy a GridGain 8 cluster and connect it to GridGain Control Center, then run common management and monitoring scenarios. By the end, you understand the main GridGain management and monitoring workflows and have a working local environment.

Prerequisites​

  • Docker 20.10 or later with Docker Compose V2
  • Git 2.24 or later
  • A GridGain Ultimate license file for the cluster
  • A GridGain Control Center license, which you upload to Control Center the first time you open it

Tutorial modules​

Start with the demo application, then continue through the monitoring, alerting, tracing, and backup tasks:

  1. Start the demo application - Deploy the cluster, Control Center, and streaming demo
  2. Monitor storage usage - Build a dashboard for memory and disk metrics
  3. Monitor cluster health - Track node membership, JVM health, and data distribution
  4. Configure alerts - Set up notifications for memory usage and node count
  5. Trace operation performance - Use tracing to find bottlenecks in cluster operations
  6. Create cluster backups - Take and restore snapshots to recover from data loss
  7. Stop the demo application - Shut down the demo cleanly

Start with Part 1: Start the demo application to deploy the cluster and streaming demo.