3 posts tagged with "docker"

Introduction​

This article is part of a series on setting up an end-to-end monitoring and alerting stack using Prometheus.

Continuing our series on setting Prometheus in a Docker container, we will add a Grafana instance to our Prometheus setup.

Please refer to the previous article where we use docker compose to run Prometheus and Alertmanager together as that forms the basis to run multiple related containers. We will add a container to run Grafana to the same compose file in this article.

• Introduction
• Adding a Grafana Container to our Docker Compose
• Adding a Dashboard
• Troubleshooting
  • My datasource "Save and Test" fails
  • I cannot see any data in my dashboard
  • Only some of the panels in my dashboard show data
  • If I restart my containers, the dashboard is gone
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction​

This article is part of a series on setting up an end-to-end monitoring and alerting stack using Prometheus.

Continuing our series on setting up Prometheus in a container, this article provides a step-by-step guide for how to configure alerts in Prometheus. We will add alerting rules and deploy Prometheus Alertmanager with Slack integration.

If you follow the steps in this article, you will end up with a containerized setup for:

1. A Prometheus instance with alerting rules.
2. An Alertmanager instance which can send alerts originating from those rules to a Slack channel.

Let's get started.

Introduction​

This article is part of a series on setting up an end-to-end monitoring and alerting stack using Prometheus.

There are different ways you can use to deploy the Prometheus monitoring tool in your environment. One of the fastest ways to get started is to deploy it as a Docker container. This guide shows you how to quickly set up a minimal Prometheus on your laptop. You can then extend that setup to add a monitoring dashboard, alerting, and authentication.

• Introduction
• Deploying Prometheus in a Docker Container
  • Basic Setup
    • Useful Tip
  • Separating the Configuration
  • Making the Data Storage Persistent
  • Further Configuration
• Conclusion
• References

Deploying Prometheus in a Docker Container​

Basic Setup​

Running Prometheus in Docker is very simple using this command

docker run -p 9000:9090 prometheus prom/prometheus:v3.0.0

This will pull and run the latest version (as of this writing) of Prometheus. You can access the Prometheus UI at localhost:9000. Note that the container port 9090 is forwarded to the localhost port 9000.