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Prometheus+Grafana in docker
guide-by-example
Purpose
Monitoring of the host and the running cointaners.
Most of the stuff here is based off the magnificent
stefanprodan/dockprom.
So maybe just go play with that.
Chapters
Setup here starts off with the basics and then theres chapters how to add features
- Core prometheus+grafana - to get nice dashboards with metrics from docker host and containers
- Pushgateway - how to use it to allow pushing metrics in to prometheus from anywhere
- Alertmanager - how to use it for notifications
- Loki - how to do the above things but for logs, not just metrics
- Caddy - adding dashboard for reverse proxy info
Overview
Good youtube overview of Prometheus.
Prometheus is an open source system for monitoring and alerting,
written in golang.
It periodicly collects metrics from configured targets,
makes these metrics available for visualization, and can trigger alerts.
Prometheus is relatively young project, it is a pull type monitoring.
- Prometheus Server is the core of the system, responsible for
- pulling new metrics
- storing the metrics in a database and evaluating them
- making metrics available through PromQL API
- Targets - machines, services, applications that are monitored.
These need to have an exporter.- exporter - a script or a service that gathers metrics on the target, converts them to prometheus server format, and exposes them at an endpoint so they can be pulled
- Alertmanager - responsible for handling alerts from Prometheus Server,
and sending notifications through email, slack, pushover,..
In this setup ntfy webhook will be used.
Grafana comes with own alerts, but grafana kinda feels... b-tier - pushgateway - allows push type of monitoring.
Should not be overused as it goes against the pull philosophy of prometheus.
Most commonly it is used to collect data from batch jobs, or from services
that have short execution time. Like a backup script.
- Grafana - for web UI visualization of the collected metrics
Files and directory structure
/home/
└── ~/
└── docker/
└── prometheus/
├──── grafana_data/
├──── prometheus_data/
├── docker-compose.yml
├── .env
└── prometheus.yml
grafana_data/
- a directory where grafana stores its dataprometheus_data/
- a directory where prometheus stores its database and data.env
- a file containing environment variables for docker composedocker-compose.yml
- a docker compose file, telling docker how to run the containersprometheus.yml
- a configuration file for prometheus
The three files must be provided.
The directories are created by docker compose on the first run.
docker-compose
- Prometheus - Container with some extra commands run at the start up.
Setting stuff like storage, data rentetion (500hours - 20 days)...
Bind mounted prometheus_data for persistent storage
and
prometheus.yml
for some basic configuration. - Grafana - Cotainer, bind mounted directory for persistent data storage
- NodeExporter - an exporter for linux machines,
in this case gathering the metrics of the linux machine runnig docker,
like uptime, cpu load, memory use, network bandwidth use, disk space,...
Also bind mount of some system directories to have access to required info. - cAdvisor - an exporter for gathering docker containers metrics,
showing cpu, memory, network use of each container
Runs inprivileged
mode and has some bind mounts of system directories to have access to required info.
Note - ports are only expose
, since expectation of use of a reverse proxy
and accessing the services by hostname, not ip and port.
docker-compose.yml
services:
# MONITORING SYSTEM AND THE METRICS DATABASE
prometheus:
image: prom/prometheus:v2.42.0
container_name: prometheus
hostname: prometheus
restart: unless-stopped
user: root
depends_on:
- cadvisor
command:
- '--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml'
- '--storage.tsdb.path=/prometheus'
- '--web.console.libraries=/etc/prometheus/console_libraries'
- '--web.console.templates=/etc/prometheus/consoles'
- '--storage.tsdb.retention.time=500h'
- '--web.enable-lifecycle'
volumes:
- ./prometheus_data:/prometheus
- ./prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
expose:
- 9090:9090
labels:
org.label-schema.group: "monitoring"
# WEB BASED UI VISUALISATION OF METRICS
grafana:
image: grafana/grafana:9.3.6
container_name: grafana
hostname: grafana
restart: unless-stopped
env_file: .env
user: root
volumes:
- ./grafana_data:/var/lib/grafana
expose:
- 3000
labels:
org.label-schema.group: "monitoring"
# HOST LINUX MACHINE METRICS EXPORTER
nodeexporter:
image: prom/node-exporter:v1.5.0
container_name: nodeexporter
hostname: nodeexporter
restart: unless-stopped
command:
- '--path.procfs=/host/proc'
- '--path.rootfs=/rootfs'
- '--path.sysfs=/host/sys'
- '--collector.filesystem.mount-points-exclude=^/(sys|proc|dev|host|etc)($$|/)'
volumes:
- /proc:/host/proc:ro
- /sys:/host/sys:ro
- /:/rootfs:ro
expose:
- 9100
labels:
org.label-schema.group: "monitoring"
# DOCKER CONTAINERS METRICS EXPORTER
cadvisor:
image: gcr.io/cadvisor/cadvisor:v0.47.1
container_name: cadvisor
hostname: cadvisor
restart: unless-stopped
privileged: true
devices:
- /dev/kmsg:/dev/kmsg
volumes:
- /:/rootfs:ro
- /var/run:/var/run:ro
- /sys:/sys:ro
- /var/lib/docker:/var/lib/docker:ro
- /cgroup:/cgroup:ro #doesn't work on MacOS only for Linux
expose:
- 3000
labels:
org.label-schema.group: "monitoring"
networks:
default:
name: $DOCKER_MY_NETWORK
external: true
.env
# GENERAL
MY_DOMAIN=example.com
DOCKER_MY_NETWORK=caddy_net
TZ=Europe/Bratislava
# GRAFANA
GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_USER=admin
GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin
GF_USERS_ALLOW_SIGN_UP=false
All containers must be on the same network.
Which is named in the .env
file.
If one does not exist yet: docker network create caddy_net
prometheus.yml
Contains the bare minimum setup of targets from where metrics are to be pulled.
Stefanprodan gives
a custom shorter scrape intervals, but I feel thats not really
necessary.
prometheus.yml
global:
scrape_interval: 15s
evaluation_interval: 15s
scrape_configs:
- job_name: 'nodeexporter'
static_configs:
- targets: ['nodeexporter:9100']
- job_name: 'cadvisor'
static_configs:
- targets: ['cadvisor:8080']
- job_name: 'prometheus'
static_configs:
- targets: ['localhost:9090']
Reverse proxy
Caddy v2 is used, details
here.
Caddyfile
graf.{$MY_DOMAIN} {
reverse_proxy grafana:3000
}
prom.{$MY_DOMAIN} {
reverse_proxy prometheus:9090
}
First run and Grafana configuration
- login admin/admin to
graf.example.com
, change the password - add Prometheus as a Data source in configuration
set URL tohttp://prometheus:9090
- import dashboards from json files in this repo
These dashboards are the preconfigured ones from
stefanprodan/dockprom
with few changes.
docker_host.json
did not show free disk space, it needed fstype
changed from
aufs
to ext4
. Also a fix
for host network monitoring not showing traffick. And in all of them
the time interval is set to show last 1h instead of last 15m
- docker_host.json - dashboard showing linux host machine metrics
- docker_containers.json - dashboard showing docker containers metrics,
except the ones labeled as
monitoring
in the compose file - monitoring_services.json - dashboar showing docker containers metrics
of containers that are labeled
monitoring
Pushgateway
The setup and real world use of pushgateway, along with small steps
when learning it are in the repo -
Veeam Prometheus Grafana
Including pushing information from windows powershell.
Alertmanager
Several changes are needed
- New container -
alertmanager
added to the compose file. - New file -
alertmanager.yml
bind mounted in the alertmanager container.
This file contains configuration about where and how to deliver alerts.
A selfhosted ntfy webhook is used that gets alerts to a phone app. - New file -
alert.rules
mounted in to prometheus container
This files defines when value of some metric becomes an alert event. - Changed file -
prometheus.yml
addedalerting
section and the path to therule_files
docker-compose.yml
services:
# MONITORING SYSTEM AND THE METRICS DATABASE
prometheus:
image: prom/prometheus:v2.42.0
container_name: prometheus
hostname: prometheus
restart: unless-stopped
user: root
depends_on:
- cadvisor
command:
- '--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml'
- '--storage.tsdb.path=/prometheus'
- '--web.console.libraries=/etc/prometheus/console_libraries'
- '--web.console.templates=/etc/prometheus/consoles'
- '--storage.tsdb.retention.time=500h'
- '--web.enable-lifecycle'
volumes:
- ./prometheus_data:/prometheus
- ./prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
- ./alert.rules:/etc/prometheus/rules/alert.rules
expose:
- 9090:9090
labels:
org.label-schema.group: "monitoring"
# WEB BASED UI VISUALISATION OF METRICS
grafana:
image: grafana/grafana:9.3.6
container_name: grafana
hostname: grafana
restart: unless-stopped
env_file: .env
user: root
volumes:
- ./grafana_data:/var/lib/grafana
expose:
- 3000
labels:
org.label-schema.group: "monitoring"
# HOST LINUX MACHINE METRICS EXPORTER
nodeexporter:
image: prom/node-exporter:v1.5.0
container_name: nodeexporter
hostname: nodeexporter
restart: unless-stopped
command:
- '--path.procfs=/host/proc'
- '--path.rootfs=/rootfs'
- '--path.sysfs=/host/sys'
- '--collector.filesystem.mount-points-exclude=^/(sys|proc|dev|host|etc)($$|/)'
volumes:
- /proc:/host/proc:ro
- /sys:/host/sys:ro
- /:/rootfs:ro
expose:
- 9100
labels:
org.label-schema.group: "monitoring"
# DOCKER CONTAINERS METRICS EXPORTER
cadvisor:
image: gcr.io/cadvisor/cadvisor:v0.47.1
container_name: cadvisor
hostname: cadvisor
restart: unless-stopped
privileged: true
devices:
- /dev/kmsg:/dev/kmsg
volumes:
- /:/rootfs:ro
- /var/run:/var/run:ro
- /sys:/sys:ro
- /var/lib/docker:/var/lib/docker:ro
- /cgroup:/cgroup:ro #doesn't work on MacOS only for Linux
expose:
- 3000
labels:
org.label-schema.group: "monitoring"
# ALERT MANAGMENT BY PROMETHEUS
alertmanager:
image: prom/alertmanager:v0.25.0
container_name: alertmanager
hostname: alertmanager
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- ./alertmanager.yml:/etc/alertmanager.yml
- ./alertmanager_data:/alertmanager
command:
- '--config.file=/etc/alertmanager.yml'
- '--storage.path=/alertmanager'
expose:
- 9093
labels:
org.label-schema.group: "monitoring"
networks:
default:
name: $DOCKER_MY_NETWORK
external: true
alertmanager.yml
route:
receiver: 'email'
receivers:
- name: "ntfy"
webhook_configs:
- url: 'https://ntfy.example.com/alertmanager'
send_resolved: true
- name: 'email'
email_configs:
- to: 'whoever@example.com'
from: 'alertmanager@example.com'
smarthost: smtp-relay.sendinblue.com:587
auth_username: '<registration_email@gmail.com>'
auth_identity: '<registration_email@gmail.com>'
auth_password: '<long ass generated SMTP key>'
alert.rules
groups:
- name: host
rules:
- alert: DiskSpaceLow
expr: sum(node_filesystem_free_bytes{fstype="ext4"}) > 19
for: 10s
labels:
severity: critical
annotations:
description: "Diskspace is low!"
prometheus.yml
global:
scrape_interval: 15s
evaluation_interval: 15s
scrape_configs:
- job_name: 'nodeexporter'
static_configs:
- targets: ['nodeexporter:9100']
- job_name: 'cadvisor'
static_configs:
- targets: ['cadvisor:8080']
- job_name: 'prometheus'
static_configs:
- targets: ['localhost:9090']
alerting:
alertmanagers:
- scheme: http
static_configs:
- targets:
- 'alertmanager:9093'
rule_files:
- '/etc/prometheus/rules/alert.rules'
test:
curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '[{"labels":{"alertname":"blabla"}}]' https://alert.example.com/api/v1/alerts
reload rules
curl -X POST http://admin:admin@<host-ip>:9090/-/reload
Update
Manual image update:
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker image prune
Backup and restore
Backup
Using borg that makes daily snapshot of the entire directory.
Restore
- down the prometheus containers
docker-compose down
- delete the entire prometheus directory
- from the backup copy back the prometheus directory
- start the containers
docker-compose up -d