McHardex / grafana

Grafana, mySQL, prometheus and wmi exporter

Grafana

Grafana, mySQL, prometheus and wmi exporter

Grafana setup

• Download grafana from dockerhub

  • docker pull grafana/grafana

• Start grafana in detached mode using this script

  • docker run -d --name=grafana -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana

• Grafana user setup and defaults setup like changing admin name and password

  docker exec -it -u root grafana bash
  vi /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
  or change from the grafana gui - profile settings
  

• Download a docker image database(mySQL - any db works)

  • docker pull mysql

• mySQL bash

  • docker exec -it some-mysql bash

• start the db

  • docker run --name some-mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw -d mysql
  • default port: 3306

• connect to the db cli

  • docker exec -it <name of image> mysql -p

• create some dbs and table as desired

• go back in history linux

  • history 2000 | grep 'link'

• create a datasource on grafana and connect to the mysqldb using the linked db ip address

  • link mysql with grafana
    • docker run -d --name=grafana --link mysql -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana
    • check the linked ip address in grafana
      • docker exec -it -u root grafana bash
      • cat ../../../etc/hosts

• create basic dashboard from mysqldb

• setup grafana email notification channel

  - docker exec -it -u root grafana bash
  - vi /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
  - ?smtp to look for the smtp section
  

• SETTING UP WINDOW METRICS WITH WMI EXPORTER, PROMETHEUS AND GRAFANA

  • wmi prometheus grafana setup for server metrics scraping

• Download prometheus docker image

  - docker pull prom/prometheus
  - docker run -d --name prometheus -p 9090:9090 prom/prometheus
  - prometheus gui(localhost:9090)
  

• Download WMI exporter to scrap window metrics

  • go to services on windows to start/stop the exporter as a service
  • server metric should now be live on (http://localhost:9182/metrics)

• Binding Prometheus to the WMI exporter

  - docker exec -it -u root prometheus sh
  - vi /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
  - go to prometheus config file - /etc/prometheus/prometheus.ym
  

  scrape_configs:
  # The job name is added as a label `job=<job_name>` to any timeseries scraped from this config.
  	- job_name: 'prometheus'
  
    	# Careful, the scrape timeout has to be lower than the scrape interval.
    	scrape_interval: 6s
    	scrape_timeout: 5s
    	static_configs:
      		- targets: ['<hostIP>:<wmi-port>']
  

  • restart prometheus
    • docker restart prometheus

• Import Grafana Dashboard

  • search for beautiful node/windows exporter
  • create prometheus data source
  • data source config

    - url: http://<hostIP>:<prometheus-port>
    - scrape interval: 6s
    - Query timeout: 5s
    

Email template

docker cp /Users/mchardex/Desktop/emails/alert_notification.html grafana:/usr/share/grafana/public/emails