Prometheus

Powerful open source monitoring tool.

Gain more visibility into your containerized apps and other builds without complicating workflows. Prometheus is a free software that enables developers to use its own query language, PromQL, to generate reports on monitored resources (or targets) in real-time and configure alerts. Prometheus is an accessible tool that works for organizations and projects of all sizes, from side projects to more complex workloads. Prometheus data is stored in metrics identified by labels, and the database itself follows an HTTP pull model.

Prometheus is often used alongside data visualizer tool Grafana. Luckily, both of these tools are available Looking to use Prometheus and Grafana on the same Linode? Deploy Prometheus and Grafana together with the combined Linode Marketplace app.

Getting Started after Deployment

Access Your Prometheus Instance

Now that your Prometheus One-Click App is deployed, you can log into Prometheus to access its expression browser, alerts, status, and more.

1. Open a browser and navigate to http://192.0.2.0:9090/. Replace 192.0.2.0 with your Linode’s IP address. This will bring you to your Prometheus instance’s expression browser.
2. Verify that Prometheus is serving metrics by navigating to http://192.0.2.0:9090/metrics. Replace 192.0.2.0 with your Linode’s IP address. You should see a page of metrics similar to the example below.

3. Grafana, the open source analytics and metric visualization tool, supports querying Prometheus. Consider deploying a Grafana instance with One-Click Apps to create visualizations for your Prometheus metrics.

Prometheus Default Settings

• Prometheus’ main configuration is located in the /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml file.
• This file includes a scrape configuration for Prometheus itself.
• The scraping interval and evaluation interval are configured globally to be 15s. The scrape_interval parameter defines the time between each Prometheus scrape, while the evaluation_interval parameter is the time between each evaluation of Prometheus’ alerting rules.
• The Prometheus Node Exporter is added and enabled. This third-party system exporter is used to collect hardware and OS metrics. Your Node Exporter metrics are sent to port 9100 of your Linode.

The Prometheus Marketplace App was built by Linode. For support regarding app deployment, contact Linode Support via the information listed in the sidebar. For support regarding the tool or software itself, visit Prometheus Community.