Prometheus Experiments

Trying out Prometheus, an open-source monitoring solution; and Grafana, an open-source metrics visualization tool.

What this demo will do (in a Vagrant VM):

• Run an instance of Prometheus (exposed on port 9090)
• Run a push gateway for Prometheus so that it can accept metrics from ephemeral jobs
• Run a Node.js fake backup script that will publish metrics to the push gateway every 5 seconds
• Run a Grafana instance (exposed on port 3000) and configure it to display the metrics from Prometheus

Requirements

• Vagrant 1.9+
• A Vagrant-supported virtual machine provider like VirtualBox or VMWare
• Ports 3000 and 9090 must be free to run the Vagrant VM

Usage

vagrant up

Grab a coffee... this will take a while.

• Visit http://localhost:3000 to see Grafana (log in with username admin and password admin)
• Visit http://localhost:9090 to see the Prometheus backend