Prometheusis an open source time series monitoring tool for managing a variety of system resources and applications. It provides a multidimensional data model, the ability to query the collected data, and detailed reporting and data visualization through Grafana.
By default, Prometheus is enabled to collect metrics on the server where it is installed. With the help of node exporters, metrics can be collected from other resources like web servers, containers, databases, custom applications, and other third-party systems. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Prometheus with node exporters on a Lightsail instance. For a full list of available exporters, see Exporters and integrations in the Prometheus documentation.
Open ports 9090 and 9100 on the firewall of your new instance. Prometheus requires ports 9090 and 9100 to be open. For more information, see Adding and editing instance firewall rules in Amazon Lightsail.
These user accounts are created for the sole purpose of management and therefore do not require additional user services or permissions beyond the scope of this setup. In this procedure, you also create directories for storing and managing the files, service settings, and data that Prometheus uses to monitor resources.
Choose or right-click the Prometheus download link that appears, and copy the link address to a text file on your computer. Do the same for the node_exporter download link that appears. You will use both copied addresses later in this procedure.
Enter the following commands one by one to change the ownership of the copied files to the prometheus user that you created earlier in this tutorial. The -R option performs a recursive ownership change for all of the files and directories within the hierarchy.
Enter the following commands one by one to copy the configuration file prometheus.yml to the /etc/prometheus directory and change the ownership of the copied file to the prometheus user that you created earlier in this tutorial.
Complete the following procedure to configure Prometheus. In this procedure, you open and edit the prometheus.yml file, which contains various settings for the Prometheus tool. Prometheus establishes a monitoring environment based on the settings that you configure in the file.
If the service doesn't start, see the Step 1: Complete the prerequisites section of this tutorial for information about creating instance firewall rules to allow traffic on this port. For other errors, review the prometheus.yml file to confirm that there are no syntax errors.
The preceding instructions are used by the Linux systemd service manager to start Prometheus on the server. When invoked, Prometheus runs as the prometheus user and references the prometheus.yml file for loading the configuration settings and storing the time series data in the /var/lib/prometheus directory. You can run man systemd from the command line to see more information about the service.
Node Exporter listens to port 9100 for the prometheus server to scrape the data. Confirm that you followed the steps for creating instance firewall rules as outlined in the Step 1: Complete the prerequisites section of this tutorial.
This command generates a Maven project, that imports the micrometer-registry-prometheus extension as a dependency.This extension will load the core micrometer extension as well as additional library dependencies required to support prometheus.
By default, the metrics are exported using the Prometheus format application/openmetrics-text,you can revert to the former format by specifying the Accept request header to text/plain (curl -H "Accept: text/plain" localhost:8080/q/metrics/).
Looking at the dimensional data produced by this counter, you can use the sum and the count to calculate how long (on average) it takes to determine if a number is prime.Using the dimensional label, you might be able to understand if there is a significant difference in duration for numbers that are prime when compared with numbers that are not.
Gauges measure a value that can increase or decrease over time, like the speedometer on a car.The value of a gauge is not accumulated, it is observed at collection time.Use a gauge to observe the size of a collection, or the value returned from a function.
The Prometheus Collector report gathers workload metrics from a Prometheus installationin order to provide fine-grained resource usage data. This can be used to gauge how muchdifferent workloads cost, understand cost trends and help set resource requests and limits.
If you already have Prometheus installed you can point Insights to the service endpoint of your installation. If you installed the Prometheus operator, the service endpoint will likely end in port 9090, and if you only installed the prometheus-server the service endpoint will probably end in port 80. To configure this in the values.yaml file use the following format:
Insights requires a Prometheus server to collect metrics for workload usage. Typically, this is a Prometheus server that is already running in a Kubernetes cluster, or a Prometheus server that is installed directly via the Insights Agent Helm Chart.
In GKE Autopilot, users are required to use the GCP Managed Prometheus offering to collect the require container metrics. GCP Managed Prometheus may increase your overall GCP spend and requires additional configuration for the Insights Agent to read those metrics.
GCP Managed Prometheus must be configured to scrape the Kubelet for Kubelet and cAdvisor metrics. This can be setup by editing the OperatorConfig resource as documented here:Install kubelet-cadvisor (opens new window)
GCP Managed Prometheus needs a Kube State Metrics instance installed in order to get metrics from the Kubernetes API. Use the configuration in the "Install Kube State Metrics" section at link below to set this up:Configure kube-state-metrics (opens new window)
An authorization proxy is used for prometheus-metrics to pull metrics from the Azure Monitor API. Follow this guide to configure and deploy the proxy to your AKS cluster: Deploy a prometheus authorization proxy (opens new window)
If the current resource values of your workloads are missing or reporting as 'unset' in the Efficency section and you are instaling your own prometheus instance, it's likely that kube-state-metrics (KSM) is not installed.
Below is an example remote write code snippet. You will need to add this remote_write block to your prometheus.yml config file in order to forward your metrics from your local Prometheus instance to fully-managed remote storage with Grafana Cloud:
Grafana Cloud provides 1 data point per minute (DPM) resolution for $8 per 1,000 series. You can adjust the total DPM you push to Grafana Cloud by adjusting the scrape_interval settings in your prometheus.yml config file.
We designed Adaptive Metrics so that you can easily aggregate metrics that are unused. By applying our aggregation rules, you will block unused time series data at the time of ingestion while keeping the metric name and labels so that you can discover them if needed in the future.Adaptive Metrics is available to all Grafana Cloud users for no additional cost.
Micrometer does have conventions, such as meters must be created and named using dots to separate segments, for example, a.name.like.this. Micrometer then translates that name into the format that the selected registry prefers. Prometheus uses underscores, which means the previous name will appear as a_name_like_this in Prometheus-formatted metrics output.
Gauges measure a value that can increase or decrease over time, like the speedometer on a car. Gauges can be useful when monitoring the statistics for a cache or collection. Consider the following simple example that observes the size of a list:
When using Prometheus, the value of the created gauge and the size of the list is observed when the Prometheus endpoint is visited. It is important to note that gauges are sampled rather than set; there is no record of how the value associated with a gauge might have changed between measurements.
Micrometer provides a few additional mechanisms for creating gauges. Note that Micrometer does not create strong references to the objects it observes by default. Depending on the registry, Micrometer either omits gauges that observe objects that have been garbage-collected entirely or uses NaN (not a number) as the observed value.
It might be tempting to add a label or tag to the counter indicating what value was checked. Remember that each unique combination of metric name (testPrimeNumber) and label value produces a unique time series. Using an unbounded set of data as label values can lead to a "cardinality explosion", an exponential increase in the creation of new time series.
Looking at the data produced by this counter, you can tell how often a negative number was checked, or the number one, or an even number, and so on. Try the following sequence and look for example_prime_number_total in the plain text output. Note that the _total suffix is added when Micrometer applies Prometheus naming conventions to example.prime.number, the originally specified counter name.
Never count something you can time or summarize. Counters only record a count, which might be all that is needed. However, if you want to understand more about how a value is changing, a timer (when the base unit of measurement is time) or a distribution summary might be more appropriate.
Timers and distribution summaries in Micrometer are very similar. Both allow you to record an observed value, which will be aggregated with other recorded values and stored as a sum. Micrometer also increments a counter to indicate the number of measurements that have been recorded and tracks the maximum observed value within a specified interval of time.
Distribution summaries are populated by calling the record method to record observed values, while timers provide additional capabilities specific to working with time and measuring durations. For example, we can use a timer to measure how long it takes to calculate prime numbers using one of the record methods that wraps the invocation of a Supplier function:
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