#Prometheus node exporter log file install#

With this target.json file, prometheus will attempt to get metrics from server1/2/3. Node_exporter is a small application that exports server metrics on port 9100 on any server installed on.

#Prometheus node exporter log file install#

However, I was able to have both running on one fairly small server during my testing.įirstly, install prometheus and node_exporter. Now for my setups, I typically have prometheus and grafana running on separate servers. The first step is to get prometheus up and running.

Having had experiance with grafana and prometheus in the past, I figured that it must be fairly simple to get both running on OpenBSD.Īs it turns out, it was quite simple to get everything setup and monitoring. While zabbix does work as intended, I always felt that the configuration even within frontend was rather complicated. If you want to view the playbooks for setting up the various components to zabbix, you can view the backend here and the frontend here. This approach turned out to be less complicated than zabbix. Last week, I ended up moving over to a Grafana dashboard with prometheus as the monitoring system. I was going to write an article about the installation and configuration of the web frontend and the postures backend, but I kept putting it off as the configuration was rather clunky. In the past, I have used zabbix as the monitoring solution for both public findelabs servers, as well as my personal OpenBSD servers. With any deployment of OpenBSD, it is always advisable to have some sort of monitoring enabled.