docker-monitoring-stack-gpnc

Grafana Prometheus Node-Exporter cAdvisor Loki - Docker Monitoring Stack

About

Get your monitoring stack up and running with one command using a Docker Compose stack featuring:

• Grafana: Dashboarding.
• Prometheus: Timeseries database for metrics.
• Node-Exporter: Node metrics.
• cAdvisor: Container metrics.

Makefile

Note: Due to docker-compose and the compose plugin, you might have one of the two installed. I have a Makefile that will detect which on you have installed.

You can list the targets using make.

Boot

Boot the stack with docker compose (or make up):

docker-compose up -d

Ensure all containers are running:

docker-compose ps

The output should looke like this:

    Name                      Command                          State          Ports         
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cadvisor                      /usr/bin/cadvisor -logtostderr   Up (healthy)   8080/tcp              
grafana                       /run.sh                          Up             0.0.0.0:3000->3000/tcp
node-exporter                 /bin/node_exporter --path. ...   Up             9100/tcp              
prometheus                    /bin/prometheus --config.f ...   Up             0.0.0.0:9090->9090/tcp

Access Grafana

Access grafana on Grafana Home (or make open) and you should see the three dashboards that was provisioned:

Once you select the Node Metrics dashboard, it should look something like this:

And for our container metrics we can access the Container Metrics dashboard:

Then for our last dashboard, the Container Log Search, by default the metric panel will be collapsed, but to expand it for visibility it will look like this:

And we can also view our Container Logs in the explore section:

Endpoints

The following endpoints are available:

Container	Internal Endpoint	External Endpoint
Grafana	http://grafana:3000	http://localhost:3000
Prometheus	http://prometheus:9090	http://localhost:9090
Node-Exporter	http://node-exporter:9100	http://localhost:9100
cAdvisor	http://cadvisor:8080	N/A

Cleanup

To remove the containers using docker compose (or make clean):

docker-compose down

## Resources

Heavily inspired from [this exporter guide](https://grafana.com/oss/prometheus/exporters/node-exporter/)