DevOps Tools/Prometheus

Overview | Prometheus

CentOS 7 Installation

Create dependencies

~$ sudo yum install -y wget
~$ sudo groupadd --system prometheus
~$ sudo useradd -s /sbin/nologin --system -g prometheus prometheus
~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/prometheus
~$ for i in rules rules.d files_sd; do sudo mkdir -p /etc/prometheus/${i}; done
~$ mkdir -p /tmp/prometheus && cd /tmp/prometheus

Download and setup

~$ curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/prometheus/prometheus/releases/latest | grep browser_download_url | grep linux-amd64 | cut -d '"' -f 4 | wget -qi -
~$ tar xvf prometheus*.tar.gz
~$ cd prometheus*/
~$ sudo mv prometheus promtool /usr/local/bin/
~$ sudo mv prometheus.yml  /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
~$ sudo mv consoles/ console_libraries/ /etc/prometheus/
~$ cd ~/
~$ rm -rf /tmp/prometheus

Create config

~$ sudo vim /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml

prometheus config

# my global config
global:
  scrape_interval:     15s # Set the scrape interval to every 15 seconds. Default is every 1 minute.
  evaluation_interval: 15s # Evaluate rules every 15 seconds. The default is every 1 minute.
  # scrape_timeout is set to the global default (10s).

# Alertmanager configuration
alerting:
  alertmanagers:
  - static_configs:
    - targets:
      # - alertmanager:9093

# Load rules once and periodically evaluate them according to the global 'evaluation_interval'.
rule_files:
  # - "first_rules.yml"
  # - "second_rules.yml"

# A scrape configuration containing exactly one endpoint to scrape:
# Here it's Prometheus itself.
scrape_configs:
  # The job name is added as a label `job=<job_name>` to any timeseries scraped from this config.
  - job_name: 'prometheus'

    # metrics_path defaults to '/metrics'
    # scheme defaults to 'http'.

    static_configs:
    - targets: ['localhost:9090']