Prometheus-Graphite-Grafana monitoring stack - Docker based.

Building a Prometheus-Graphite-Grafana monitoring stack that will monitor a host VM performance - cpu,ram,disk space etc.

The following project goal is to Start a ubuntu based vm , run/install collectors on the vm and deploy on top of it a docker based stack of Prometheus-Graphite-Grafana in order to monitor the vm using Grafana Dashboards.

• VirtualBox with vboxmanage cli tool ver 5.2.34 - make sure the commands is executable via the user's PATH
• Ubuntu 16.04 iso - to create a vm on VBOX
• Docker version 19.03.8 - installation process on installs.txt file
• Docker-Compose cli tool - 1.25.5 - installation process on installs.txt file

• after we made sure we installed all the dependencies in the "Dependencies" section:
• The project comes with prom.tar.gz compressed file, move it into the ubuntu vm
• some of the scripts try to install packages - run with user with sufficient permissions
• unzip: tar -xvzf prom.tar.gz
• run/install collectors on vm - Make sure you run the shell scripts with sufficient permissions - the scripts need root permissions.
• the scripts utilize relative path so make sure you run from inside the directory as shown below: cd prom/collectd sh run_install_collectd.sh cd ../node_exporter sh run_node_exporter.sh

• run from the prom directory: cd prom && docker-compose -f docker-compose.yaml up -d

To see the stack you installed access the vm machine with web browser on port 3000. example 10.0.0.1:3000 enter the dashboards section and you will see 2 dashboards to monitor the host_VM:

1. Graphite dashboard - Based on collectd collector tool
2. Prometheus dashboards - Based on node_exporter exporter tool

Any advise for common problems or issues.

1. make sure node exporter is running : netstat -tulnp | grep 9100 if not, run: ./prom/node_exporter/node_exporter

2. make sure collectd was installed and running: systemctl status collectd if not check why the script "collectd/run_install_collectd.sh" installed the package. if not make sure you run it with sufficient permissions

3. the stack will create a few volumes - make sure you have enough disk-space: df -ah

4. some of the scripts copy files from the relative path. try to run from inside prom directory like so: cd prom/node_exporer && sh run_node_exporter.sh

Lavih [email protected]

• 0.2
  • Various bug fixes and optimizations
  • See commit change or See release history
• 0.1
  • Initial Release

This project is licensed under the [NAME HERE] License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Inspiration, code snippets, etc.

*https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus *https://github.com/graphite-project *https://github.com/grafana/grafana

#docs *https://graphiteapp.org/ *https://grafana.com/ *https://prometheus.io/

*https://hub.docker.com/r/prom/prometheus *https://hub.docker.com/r/graphiteapp/graphite-statsd