Server Monitoring // Prometheus and Grafana Tutorial

Hey, I don't know if anyone's pointed out yet, but your config is misnamed. In the docker-compose you have it pointing at prometheus.yaml, but the config file itself in your repo is prometheus.yml. You might wish to update this in your repo, if you get the message.

your GitHub prometheus.yml file does not match the video one. when I'm trying to use Cadvisor, the Prometheus goes down after a few seconds of the startup... totally confused...

k00bernetttus

I'm very new to this -- I see that both containers are separate now. How would I go about deploying them now?

where is the link to portainer video

This isn't really a Prometheus and Grafana tutorial, more like a getting started / installation.

Nice tutorial as always!! Thank you Christian. I have tried to follow your steps to setup Prometheus but for some reason its is not reading the configuration file "prometheus.yml" from the host instead reading it from the prometheus container which i don't want. Can you please help me figure out what I may be missing here :-)

what happen to your nose!!!

I've got both up and running but not talking to each other. I added that "Node Explorer Full" but all my displays only show N/A. I can choose the data source at the top but node and host I can only select "None"?

I got an error during running all staff: Error response from daemon: path / is mounted on / but it is not a shared or slave mount
any ideas?

I have no data with the imported Dashboards. What can i do?

Hello, what if I have more than one vm or environment. how do I get the stats from another vm to grafana?

you probably already know this and just saying it out of convenience but "etc" doesn't mean et cetera

You've been an essential piece of the puzzle in setting this up.

Great video and super helpful as always! Thx for all your great content!

So the most important part how i configure prometheus is missing, you used an already working config without showing it.

Very useful, thanks a ton!

Hi christian, I am new to this and we need to set something like this for our F5 devices. They have their own plugin called Telemtry. Have you ever built anything like this with F5 or similar?

Hey ChriSTIAN

/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml: yaml: line 24: did not find expected '-' indicator"

you look like an evil genius and your videos are awesome!

thx for linking me here chuck ! @networkchuck ^^

Very useful tutorial, thank you!

Great video, it help us to understand very easily. Nice work.
Always waiting for your new videos to upgrade ourself

今天边学习，边自己服务器配置了监视系统，谢谢Christian Lempa。

Thank you so mush ❤ Fantastic tutorial 👏

thank you for your work

I don't know why I try to go anywhere else when I need something installed in Docker. These videos always give more information than what is needed and everything is explained very well

Using docker in explaination videos should be forbidden by law.

Grafana dashboard layout displays all servers as IP addresses which is difficult for us to keep track of and we prefer to have it as a hostname display in the drop down. Any suggestions on how to get that done would be very helpful.

Great Explanation sir, you have earned another follower :)

I wasn't able to get through the entire video yet, but please correct me if I'm mistaken: Grafana and Prometheus are better installed on a local server within your network for protection etc, and Node Exporter/Cadvisor should be installed on remote nodes that you would like to monitor?

Hello Sir, i'm using container (LXC) to put database, can I install mysql_exporter in another container to monitor my database container? or does it have to be in my database container? thanks

I like your GitHub profile page. You should do a video on setting one up. It’s the best one I’ve seen so far. Maybe just the first time I’ve seen someone put thought into it.

thank you

Thankyou for your explaining Sir, I have a problem, I wanna make one dashboard for one server, is it possible? because all the server lists that I have inputted into Prometheus.yml go into the monitoring dashboard automatically, I want the dashboard to be separate for each server

Great video ! Just one tiny question: I intend to install Prometheus and Grafana on a RPI4 with 2GB of RAM. Is it enough to monitor about 5 containers and system metrics ?

I'm trying hard to get this set up and move onto the grafana bit of the video, but I can't get past the error finding the prometheus.yml file: no such file or directory. I have checked spelling, checking permissions, changed permissions to everyone RW, the container still won't start with the --config.file command; it doesn't find the file even though its there!! Frustrating the hell outta me!

I would also add u can use InfluxDB for persistant data

epic lol

i have error like : Error reading Prometheus: An error occurred within the plugin.
anybody can help?

Is it just me or prometheus is a bit strange? I wrote an application for testing that increments a counter by 1 every 5s. That said, prometheus can only show me .2 when apply the rate, even if I set the "step" as 5 (seconds)... this is quite annoying because there's no 0.2 request per second ... like you cannot split a human into smaller pieces.

Thanks. nice video
i upload the dashboard 1860 but can't see the CPU metrics
all metrics work on dashboard except the CPU, i try to look for metrics in prometheus, they appear there

Hey! Thanks for your video 😄

I have a question: There is a way to use Prometheus Cloud + Grafana Cloud without self-hosting it, if yes, then how? Thanks!

Thanks a lot. There is so much ressources, sometimes ununderstandable, it's difficult to find the information hidden in the noise. Your video is very very helpful. Thanks a lot!

Great video ! Just one tiny question: I intend to install Prometheus and Grafana on a RPI4 with 2GB of RAM. Is it enough to monitor about 5 containers and system metrics ?

Thanks

It was great! There is something I'm trying to solve for a long time. For log collection I'm using Graylog, but I always facing issues when I try to implement this as Docker containers. Do you have a working Graylog compose file works in Portainer? I think you should consider a video on Graylog because it is a great and stable tool too and as you explained, logs are also important :)