lorona

A monitoring solution for servers and docker images. An exporter for prometheus.

Install on Ubuntu

  • Login to Ubuntu
  • Install golang with 'sudo apt install golang-go'
  • Run git clone git@github.com:markessien/lorona.git
  • Enter the lorona directory with 'cd lorona'
  • Type go get ./... to install all dependencies
  • Type go build
  • You now have an executable file called lorona
  • Copy settings.sample.yaml to settings.yaml in the same directory
  • Edit settings.yaml to point to monitor everything you are interested in
  • Start lorona using ./lorona.
  • If you need prometheus metrics, it listens on 2112 by default
  • Open :2112/metrics to get the prometheus metrics
  • Create file /etc/systemd/system/lorona.service
  • Paste this in:
[Unit]
Description=Lorona monitoring
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
User=<your username>
ExecStart=/<path to lorona>/lorona -settings=/<path to lorona>/settings.yaml -log=/<path to lorona>/logs/

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
  • Start it with systemctl start lorona
  • Test if it is running fine with systemctl status lorona
  • If all is fine, enable it with systemctl enable lorona

Notes

  • There is a sample grafana dashboard in the repo