docker-monitoring-stack-gpnc

Grafana Prometheus Node-Exporter cAdvisor - Docker Monitoring Stack

Boot

Boot the stack with docker compose (or make up):

docker-compose up -d

Ensure all containers are running:

docker-compose ps

The output should looke like this:

    Name                   Command                  State               Ports         
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cadvisor        /usr/bin/cadvisor -logtostderr   Up (healthy)   8080/tcp              
grafana         /run.sh                          Up             0.0.0.0:3000->3000/tcp
node-exporter   /bin/node_exporter --path. ...   Up             9100/tcp              
prometheus      /bin/prometheus --config.f ...   Up             0.0.0.0:9090->9090/tcp
alertmanager    /bin/alertmanager --config ...   Up             0.0.0.0:9093->9093/tcp

Access Grafana

Access grafana on Grafana Home (or make open) and you should see the two dashboards that was provisioned:

Once you select the nodes dashboard, it should look something like this:

When you select "Alerting" and "Alert rules" you will find the recording and alerting rules:

We can expand the alerting rules:

And then we can view more detail on a alert rule:

And for our container metrics we can access the Container Metrics dashboard:

Endpoints

The following endpoints are available:

Container	Internal Endpoint	External Endpoint
Grafana	http://grafana:3000	http://localhost:3000
Prometheus	http://prometheus:9090	http://localhost:9090
Node-Exporter	http://node-exporter:9100	http://localhost:9100
cAdvisor	http://cadvisor:8080	N/A
Alertmanager	http://alertmanager:9093	http://localhost:9093

Cleanup

To remove the containers using docker compose (or make clean):

docker-compose down

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