cAdvisor launching

1. Create the monitor network

docker network create monitor

2. Run cAdvisor container

docker run \
  --volume=/:/rootfs:ro \
  --volume=/var/run:/var/run:rw \
  --volume=/sys:/sys:ro \
  --volume=/var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:ro \
  --publish=8080:8080 \
  --detach=true \
  --name=cadvisor \
  --network=monitor \
  gcr.io/cadvisor/cadvisor:latest

3. cAdvisor is now available at localhost:8080

Prometheus launching

1. Write the prometheus.yml config file (already written)
2. Run Prometheus container (change /path/to/prometheus.yml to the path to your Prometheus config file)

docker run -d \
  -p 9090:9090 \
  --name=prometheus \
  -v /path/to/prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
  --network monitor \
  prom/prometheus

3. Prometheus is now available at localhost:9090

Grafana launching

1. Run Grafana container

docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name=grafana --network=monitor grafana/grafana

2. Grafana is now available at localhost:3000
3. Enter default credentials (admin/admin)
4. Add Prometheus as a data source

• Go to "Connections" tab
• "View configured data sources"
• "Add data source" > "Prometheus"
• Enter address of Prometheus container (http://prometheus:9090)

5. Make a dashboard

• Go to "Dashboards" tab
• Click "Create dashboard"
• "Add visualisation"
• Select "prometheus" as data source
• Choose some metric in the "Metric" field
• Save the dashboard