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Monitor your Docker containers using prometheus, cAdvisor , node-exporter and grafana

• Docker CE, Docker EE, orDocker Desktop on Windows
• docker-compose

1. Clone this repo:

   git clone https://github.com/jmb12686/prometheus-monitoringcd prometheus-monitoring

2. Change line #5 in thealert.rules.yml file to correspond to a container name that you want to explicitly monitor and fire alerts for. Changename="YOUR-CONTAINER-NAME-HERE" to match your Docker container NAME.

3. Start the stack with docker-compose:

   docker-compose up

   If launching from a Windows host, be sure to set the following Docker-Compose variable in powershell first:

   $Env:COMPOSE_CONVERT_WINDOWS_PATHS=1

Links to dashboards of each monitoring tool deployed in this stack

• cAdvisor - Collects and exports resource usage and performance statistics of Docker containers.

  • http://localhost:9200

• node-exporter - Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics

  • http://localhost:9100

• Prometheus - Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

  • http://localhost:9090

• Grafana - monitoring, metric analytics, and dashboard visualization tool.

  • http://localhost:3000
  • default user/pass : admin/admin