Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Monitoring Linux Server with Prometheus and Grafana. Node and Blackbox exporter. Alert Manager.

 

Introduction:

Prometheus is a open-source platform for monitoring hardware and services. It collects metrics from the system of any other services that we configured.

Setup:

In this article we are going to see how to setup monitoring of a linux machine.

I’m going to use Docker to setup this process, however you can install binaries as usual. The docker compose consists of multiple components.

• First setup - Prometheus with Grafan. Viewing Server resources usgae using Node Exporter.
• Second setup - Prometheus alert manager for mail alerts for server usage.
• Third setup - Prometheus Blackbox exporter setup to view and monitor website metrics. Also sendd alerts.

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Node Exporter Dashboard:

Blackbox Dashboard