#MONIT CLIENT STATUS EXAMPLE INSTALL#

See Export and import to learn more about importing Grafana dashboards. In Grafana, click Dashboards in the left-side menu to go to the Dashboards page.Ĭlick New and select Import in the dropdown.Įnter the ID number of the dashboard we selected. For our example, we require a dashboard that is built to display Linux Node metrics using Prometheus and node_exporter, so we chose Linux Hosts Metrics | Base. Official and community-built dashboards are listed on the Grafana website Dashboards page.ĭashboards on this page will include information in the Overview tab about special configurations you may need to use to get the dashboard to work.

#MONIT CLIENT STATUS EXAMPLE INSTALL#

Here you have two options: install a pre-made dashboard or create a dashboard from scratch. If metrics are not displayed after several minutes, check your steps for typos, make sure the binary is executable, and whether Prometheus is running on the Linux machine. If metrics are listed, this confirms that metrics are being received. If node is not listed, metrics are not being collected.

Use the Metrics dropdown to find the entry for node, which is the job_name we created in prometheus.yml. This takes you to the Explore page, which looks like this.Īt the top of the page, use the dropdown menu to select your Prometheus data source. To test this, use the Explore feature.Ĭlick Explore in the sidebar to start. Within minutes, metrics should begin to be available in Grafana Cloud.

Check that metrics are being ingested into Grafana Cloud If you don’t want to have to start Prometheus directly from the command line every time you want it to run, you can create a systemd service for it. prometheus -config.file=./prometheus.yml To confirm your username and URL, first navigate to the Cloud Portal, then from the Prometheus box, click Send Metrics.Ĭreate a Prometheus configuration file named prometheus.yml in the same directory as the Prometheus binary with the following content. remote_write is where we instruct Prometheus to send the scraped metrics to a secondary endpoint.Įdit this file to include your Grafana Cloud username and the API key you created earlier.It is also where we configure Prometheus to find the metrics for that job. scrape_configs is where we name our job this name will be used in Grafana to help you find associated metrics.In this example, we set the scrape_interval for checking and grabbing metrics from configured jobs to happen every 15 seconds. global is the section into which configurations common across all Prometheus actions are placed.

For our example, it only needs three sections: This configuration file has many options. Create a configuration file for Prometheus, so that it can scrape the metrics and to send them to Grafana Cloud.

Monit client status example