monit-grafana-example

Example of running monit-grafana instance for checking containerized services in docker-compose.

Docker-compose file contains:

• 3 mock containers, listening on port 8080 and serving response for '/status' request
• monit container (built from https://github.com/demetrio108/monit) with simple remote checks configuration
• monit-grafana container (built from https://github.com/demetrio108/monit-grafana) for exporting monit dashboard to Grafana
• Grafana itself

Quick start

Clone this repo and cd inside:

git clone https://github.com/demetrio108/monit-grafana-example && cd monit-grafana-example

Launch deployment:

docker-compose up

Install SimpleJSON plugin from another terminal window:

docker exec -ti grafana grafana-cli plugins install grafana-simple-json-datasource

Restart Grafana:

docker restart grafana

Login to Grafana (http://localhost:3000 admin/admin) and create new datasource with type SimpleJSON. Use URL http://monit-grafana:8080/monit_test/ and leave default values for other parameters.

Select Dashboards->Manage from menu, then click Upload button and choose sample provided dashboard monit-grafana-dashboard.json. On successfull import you should see dashboard like this:

Try stopping/starting containers

docker stop container1
docker start container1