Grafana

Grafana is a tool to visually monitor the Wikimedia server load. You get an overview of the server load for the different applications, and immediately see if there is a problem.

Usage

• When using Pywikibot, and you get Maxlag timeout messages, you can monitor the Wikidata Maxlag transaction delay, to see when you could resume running your scripts.

Tool location

• Monitoring Wikidata edits

Known problems

1. Enables auto-refresh when laptop starts up
   • Disable manually
2. Maximum retries attempted due to maxlag without success
   • Temporary technical problems at Wikidata; no items are updated/created
   • Retry later, after the edits are resumed