Prometheus provisioning with Ansible

Ansible playbooks for setting up Prometheus monitoring system and configuring monitoring nodes.

• Prometheus
• Alertmanager
• node_exporter
• blackbox_exporter
• TODO: postgres_exporter

Local development setup

The local setup provision a Prometheus server and another server with node_exporter installed.

1. Configure the prometheus server and test client server in vagrant.default.yml
2. Run vagrant up

Remote setup

For remote setup, an Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial server is required for Prometheus server. Additional servers can be added to the node group to install node_exporter.

Besides that, remote servers also need to have at least Python installed for Ansible.

1. Configure hosts in hosts/production
2. Configure variables in group_vars/production
3. Run playbook with ansible-playbook --inventory-file=hosts/production --sudo -v playbook.yml