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Once you've cloned the repo, simply run (from the with within the cloned folder):
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docker-compose up -d |
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Installing node_exporter can be done by downloading a recent version version, untar'ing and executing. We're going to be doing an extra step here to manage node_exporter with systemd (so it starts on server boot etc.).
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[Unit]
Description=Node Exporter
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/opt/node_exporter/node_exporter --web.listen-address=:10091
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target |
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Once you have your docker containers running, access port 3000 on the server with a browser (e.g. visit httpvisit http://192.168.0.1:3000 or whatever your internal address is for your server).
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Grafana's login screen should appear - if you're the first user to login after creating this container then just enter any new credentials.
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You can leave most setting as default and simply enter the server url docker-compose defined prom hostname with port 9090 for the Prometheus instance we have setup, for my case it looks like:
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