PC monitoring prometheus and grafana

Project that helps PC users to monitor their PC using prometheus and grafana.

This project needs a proper versioning and releases process, will be added over time.

The current goal is to create a nice Grafana dashboard that will collect details of the running applications and their real power consumption I am a windows user with linux VM development environment, hence the first main goal is to have this project running on windows OS

The centric piece of the puzzle is the TP-Link Smart plug HS 110, which provides an web API to collect real time power usage of your PC. This project contains the exporter, written in go.

This project contains the instruction how to download and set up all other applications. Please make sure you have 7zip to extract tar.gz archives

How to set up windows monitoring

First crate a new directory to hold all third party applications. EG: pc_monitoring Copy entire configs directory under pc_monitoring I did not figure out how to use relative paths in cmd scripts, hence please update the start-monitoring.cmd file with the absolute path of your pc_monitoring folder :)

Copy start-monitoring cmd file in pc_monitoring

Prometheus server

download windows version at https://prometheus.io/download/ EG: prometheus-[VERSION].windows-amd64.tar.gz
using 7zip extract content in pc_monitoring under prometheus folder You can change the prometheus server port number adding --web.listen-address="0.0.0.0:19090" on start arguments

Grafana

download Standalone Windows Binaries from page: https://grafana.com/grafana/download?platform=windows
extract content in pc_monitoring under grafana folder
place grafana_data_sources_prometheus.yaml file in pc_monitoring\grafana\conf\provisioning\datasources

Windows exporter

get the latest version of wmi exporter at: https://github.com/martinlindhe/wmi_exporter/releases eg: wmi_exporter-0.7.999-amd64.msi
using 7zip extract the executable wmi_exporter.exe in pc_monitoring under wmi folder

tp-link hs exporter

you can follow the instructions under tplink-hs-prometheus-exporter README file or for the moment download the executable from the executable directory
tplink-hs-prometheus-exporter.exe was build for windows x64
plink-hs-prometheus-exporter was build for linux x64
pleace the plink-hs-prometheus-exporter.exe in pc_monitoring under tplink folder
update IP address in start-monitoring.cmd file (last line)

Start all services using the start-monitoring.cmd script and access http://localhost:3000 to add the JSON dashboard

Dashboard not ready yet