Monitoring ansible setup

Role to setup a new monitoring server. This stack is modular and comes with:

• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Node_exporter
• Loki
• Promtail

This has been tested on:

• RHEL based distros
• Debian
• Ubuntu

Requirements

A machine with an SSH connection.

Role Variables

The variables are defined in defaults/main.yml. These should be configured as needed:

Variable	Default	Info
hostname	grafana-server	Hostname of the system
download_location	/tmp	Download location
packages	[]	General packages that should be installed
---
prometheus_install	true	Should prometheus be installed?
prometheus_user	prometheus	User for prometheus installation
---
exporter_install	true	Should node_exporter be installed?
exporter_user	node_exporter	User for node_exporter installation
---
loki_install	true	Should loki be installed?
loki_user	loki	User for loki installation
---
promtail_install	true	Should promtail be installed?
promtail_user	promtail	User for promtail installation

Warnings

The ports can also be changed for more security (might be a future variable).

Example playbook

---
- name: test playbook
  hosts: general

  roles:
  - role: ansible-monitoring