This directory contains scripts to get started with a basic Prometheus and Alertmanager configuration.
This directory includes configuration files to configure some basic
alerting rules in Prometheus, and configure Alertmanager to sent alerts to
a Slack channel using an incoming webhook.
To use this alerting feature, the webhook URL will need to be added to alertmanager.yml.
The alerts and their statuses can still be seen within Prometheus without enabling this,
just skip the steps to start the Alertmanager below.
If you are using Linux, you can run Prometheus and Alertmanager locally, otherwise a Vagrantfile is available.
Click on the links below to choose how you would like to run the demo:
vagrant up
This will provision a virtual machine with Prometheus and Alertmanager unpacked into the home directory.
Once the machine is provisioned, connect to it as follows:
vagrant ssh
You can then start Prometheus as follows:
cd ~/prometheus
./prometheus --web.external-url=http://192.168.100.100:9090
This will start Prometheus listening on port 9090 using the configuration
provided in prometheus.yml.
This configures Prometheus to scrape its targets every 15s and configures
it to scrape metrics from itself.
To view the Prometheus UI, it can be accessed at http://192.168.99.100:9090.
To start Alertmanager, in another terminal connected to the machine, run the following:
cd ~/alertmanager
./alertmanager
./download.sh
This will download Prometheus and Alertmanager and unpack them into the current directory.
You can then start Prometheus as follows:
cd prometheus
./prometheus --web.external-url=http://localhost:9090
This will start Prometheus listening on port 9090 using the configuration
provided in prometheus.yml.
This configures Prometheus to scrape its targets every 15s and configures
it to scrape metrics from itself.
To view the Prometheus UI, it can be accessed at http://localhost:9090.
To start Alertmanager, in another terminal, run the following:
cd alertmanager
./alertmanager