Prometheus Stack

Personal setup packages for Prometheus as simple server monitoring

Prometheus Host Server

Below package is used

• Prometheus
• Alert Manager
• Grafana

Running on host server by docker compose

Grafana Setup

1. Default auth is admin/admin
2. Add data source on http://prometheus:9090
3. Import default metrics dashboard as via grafana/theme/node-exporter-server-metrics-rev6.json

Update alert rules

Add client machines

1. Run node exporter on clients by sudo docker run -d -p 9100:9100 --net="host" quay.io/prometheus/node-exporter
2. Update prometheus.yaml
3. Update with prometheus.yaml via curl -X POST http://localhost:9090/-/reload

Useful links

https://www.robustperception.io/sending-email-with-the-alertmanager-via-gmail/