/ansible-monitoring

Role to setup monitoring tools (grafana, prometheus, node_exporter, loki & promtail).

MIT LicenseMIT

Monitoring ansible setup

Role to setup a new monitoring server. This stack is modular and comes with:

  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Node_exporter
  • Loki
  • Promtail

This has been tested on:

  • RHEL based distros
  • Debian
  • Ubuntu

Requirements

A machine with an SSH connection.

Role Variables

The variables are defined in defaults/main.yml. These should be configured as needed:

Variable Default Info
hostname grafana-server Hostname of the system
download_location /tmp Download location
packages [] General packages that should be installed
---
prometheus_install true Should prometheus be installed?
prometheus_user prometheus User for prometheus installation
---
exporter_install true Should node_exporter be installed?
exporter_user node_exporter User for node_exporter installation
---
loki_install true Should loki be installed?
loki_user loki User for loki installation
---
promtail_install true Should promtail be installed?
promtail_user promtail User for promtail installation

Warnings

The ports can also be changed for more security (might be a future variable).

Example playbook

---
- name: test playbook
  hosts: general

  roles:
  - role: ansible-monitoring