# How to monitor MinIO server with Grafana [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io)

[Grafana](https://grafana.com/) allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data driven culture.

## Prerequisites

The command will generate the `scrape_configs` section of the prometheus.yml as follows:

##### Cluster

```yaml

  unencrypted FTP communication (Not-recommended)

## Scope

- All IAM Credentials are allowed access excluding rotating credentials, rotating credentials
  are not allowed to login via FTP/SFTP ports, you must use S3 API port for if you are using
  rotating credentials.

- Access to bucket(s) and object(s) are governed via IAM policies associated with the incoming
  login credentials.

# Automatic Site Replication

This feature allows multiple independent MinIO sites (or clusters) that are using the same external IDentity Provider (IDP) to be configured as replicas. In this situation the set of replica sites are referred to as peer sites or just sites. When site-replication is enabled on a set of sites, the following changes are replicated to all other sites:

- Creation and deletion of buckets and objects

`<Address for MinIO Node>/minio/v2/metrics/node`.

The additional bucket specific metrics which include additional go metrics or process metrics are exposed at
`<Address for MinIO Node>/minio/v2/metrics/bucket`.

The additional resource specific metrics which include additional go metrics or process metrics are exposed at
`<Address for MinIO Node>/minio/v2/metrics/resource`.

# Compression Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io)

MinIO server allows streaming compression to ensure efficient disk space usage.
Compression happens inflight, i.e objects are compressed before being written to disk(s).
MinIO uses [`klauspost/compress/s2`](https://github.com/klauspost/compress/tree/master/s2)
streaming compression due to its stability and performance.

## Contents properties

All properties except the file size are tied to the zip file. This means that modification date, headers, tags, etc. can only be set for the zip file as a whole. In similar fashion, replication will replicate the zip file as a whole and not individual files.

## Code Examples