Overview
As a nxtRadar administrator, you are responsible for deploying monitoring agents, configuring metric collection endpoints, managing log ingestion pipelines, defining alert routing rules, setting data retention policies, and maintaining the health of the monitoring platform itself.Topics
Architecture
nxtRadar service layers — collection, storage, and serving — and how metrics, logs,
and flow data flow from sources to operators.
Agent Configuration
Deploy monitoring agents via nxtDeploy or manually, configure custom scrape targets,
and manage agent authentication tokens.
Metric Endpoints
Configure metric scrape targets, manage endpoint discovery, and organize metrics
by namespace for alert rules and dashboards.
Log Collection
Configure log sources, syslog forwarding, and log format parsers for centralized
log ingestion.
Alert Channels
Configure email, webhook, PagerDuty, and Slack notification channels for alert
delivery and multi-tier escalation policies.
DDoS Protection
Configure DDoS detection thresholds, mitigation policies, and review attack events
and false-positive unblocking procedures.
Retention Policies
Configure metric and log retention periods — balance historical depth against
storage costs for raw and downsampled data.
Security
Agent token management, dashboard access control via NxtSight identity roles,
and TLS certificate lifecycle.
Troubleshooting
Diagnose high cardinality metric issues, log ingestion backlogs, and
dashboard data availability problems.
Next Steps
nxtRadar User Guide
Tenant operations — dashboards, alerts, log analytics, and network monitoring
Disaster Recovery Admin Guide
Configure nxtRadar alerts to trigger nxtDR failover procedures automatically
nxtStore Admin Guide
Integrate nxtStore storage metrics with nxtRadar for unified storage observability
NxtSight Compute Admin Guide
Monitor compute node health and instance placement through nxtRadar