Monitoring a Machine with Prometheus: A Brief Introduction

This video takes you through how to setup Prometheus to monitor your local machine for statistics such as CPU and disk.

[scottb]

Thank you! I've been struggling trying to keep focused through a dry book trying to configure Prometheus. You made it so easy to get the basics and some extras. Wish I found this earlier. Thanks again!

[skinwalker_]

Thanks, i was looking for a quick overview before diving in and this was perfect.

[billybob]

Finally after three days of trying to get this to work following different sets of instructions on the web I came on this video. So simple and it actually works well almost. I'm hoping someone can help me out. I followed the instructions and got Prometheus and node exporter to talk to each other but there are a few issues.

1. When I go to the consoles page it only sees Prometheus it does not see "Node" message "No nodes found."
2. I am running an Apache web server as my localhost, I see the metrics for HTTP but when I run them they seem to only be for Prometheus not for my WordPress site running on the Apache server.

Also any good community forums where I can ask questions and more importantly any good sites that have for the beginner?

Thank you again for ending my frustration with this video.

[pavanp]

Great video, need one video on push gateway.
there is not much material out there on how to use it

[cptechno]

Another question: I am also learning and using Kubernetes's new component called IsTio (pronounced that way), which is fantastic and almost revolutionary in the capabilities that it offers. This component also collects a big number of monitoring metrics. My question is: Are there any talks between the IsTio group and the Prometheus group for collaboration or interaction between both components (IsTio and Prometheus)?

[AlexEllis]

Nice very clear. Did you do a follow-on for AlertManager?

[kaki]

Does prometheus and node_exporter have to be on same machine? Can they be on different machines? As an example, can AWS EC2 instance has node_exported and my laptop has prometheus to monitor the EC2 instance?

[kaihendry]

That rate without cpu graphing calculation was voodoo. Care to explain?

[VaheVan]

Is there any video which shows proper installation Prometheus on Ubuntu?

[ankitvaidya]

Can we get the memory breakup of application pods ?

[shadialsalamat]

i want your help
i can not plleb my snmp devices
my switch hp procurve and i have problem i can pool it with snmpwalk
but with snmp-export no (time exccleed)
with prometheus work well with node

[anonymous]

I am itching to try Prometheus but I am concerned that I will be sucked into a 2 week period of trying to get it to work. Is there an ¨out of the box¨ config that we can just download and tweak or do we have to write out all the config files by hand?

[spiritcxz]

how to start snmp exporter like that "service snmp exporter start", because Ctrl + C interrupting ./snmp-exporter

[cptechno]

I appreciate that node_exporter has all these metrics that it can provide. However, is there a way to turn some of these metric collection off? In the case where node_exporter is installed on a machine that is very busy (like a web service), we might not want to waste cpu cycles on collecting unwanted data. Is there a way to turn off the collection of some of these metrics?

[danielkanyo]

Hi! Is there any solution, if the metrics are in JSON format?

[philipproth]

Can someone tell me the benefits from trendig?

[sathvikvutukuri]

There is no Node exporter in prometheus.io now, where i can get it.

[itersyka]

Можно по громче! Люди без шумодавов в метро страдают!