Monitoring Grafana

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Monitoring Grafana

Grafana is an open-source platform for data analysis and monitoring. It enables you to query, visualize, and comprehend metrics from various systems, such as databases, servers, cloud services, and many others.

Prometheus Install

1 - Download latest software version

wget https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v2.30.2/prometheus-2.30.2.linux-amd64

2 - Unzip

tar -xvf prometheus-2.30.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

3 - Copying contents from the prometheus directory to the appropriate directory

sudo cp -r ./prometheus-2.30.2.linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/prometheus

4 - Remove downloaded files

rm prometheus-2.30.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
rm -r prometheus-2.30.2.linux-amd64

5 - Creating service to run prometheus

5.1 - Create Prometheus Service File

Create a file:

sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/prometheus.service

Put the following content inside it:

[Unit]
Description=Prometheus Service
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/prometheus/prometheus --config.file /usr/local/bin/prometheus/prometheus.yml

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

5.2 - Reload daemons

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

6 - Execute the prometheus

sudo systemctl start prometheus

7 - Checking if prometheus is really running

sudo systemctl status prometheus

Something like this will appear:

● prometheus.service - Prometheus Service
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/prometheus.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2021-10-03 04:55:46 UTC; 7min ago
   Main PID: 2388 (prometheus)
      Tasks: 6 (limit: 1071)
     Memory: 22.2M
     CGroup: /system.slice/prometheus.service
             └─2388 /usr/local/bin/prometheus/prometheus --config.file /usr/local/bin/prometheus/prometheus.yml

8 - Enabling service in boot

sudo systemctl enable prometheus

Node exporter install

1 - Download latest software version

wget https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v1.3.1/node_exporter-1.3.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz

2 - Unzip

tar -xvf node_exporter-1.3.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz

3 - Copying contents from the node_exporter directory to the appropriate directory

sudo cp -r ./node_exporter-1.3.1.linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/node_exporter

4 - Remove downloaded files

rm node_exporter-1.3.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
rm -r node_exporter-1.3.1.linux-amd64

5 - Creating service to run node_exporter

5.1 - Create Node exporter Service File

Create a file:

sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/node_exporter.service

Put the following content inside it:

[Unit]
Description=Node Exporter Service
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node_exporter/node_exporter

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

5.2 - Reload daemons

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

6 - Execute the node_exporter

sudo systemctl start node_exporter

7 - Checking if node_exporter is really running

sudo systemctl status node_exporter

Something like this will appear:

sudo systemctl status node_exporter
● node_exporter.service - Node Exporter Service
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/node_exporter.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2021-10-03 05:23:18 UTC; 14min ago
   Main PID: 2808 (node_exporter)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 1071)
     Memory: 2.0M
     CGroup: /system.slice/node_exporter.service
             └─2808 /usr/local/bin/node_exporter/node_exporter

8 - Enabling service in boot

sudo systemctl enable node_exporter

Grafana Install

1 - Download latest software version and install

sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1
wget https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana_8.1.5_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana_8.1.5_amd64.deb

2 - Remove downloaded package

rm grafana_8.1.5_amd64.deb

3 - Start grafana-server service

sudo systemctl start grafana-server

4 - Checking if grafana-server is really running

sudo systemctl status grafana-server

Something like this will appear:

● grafana-server.service - Grafana instance
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/grafana-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2021-10-03 23:40:30 UTC; 2h 41min ago
       Docs: http://docs.grafana.org
   Main PID: 7047 (grafana-server)
      Tasks: 11 (limit: 4705)
     Memory: 32.7M
     CGroup: /system.slice/grafana-server.service
             └─7047 /usr/sbin/grafana-server --config=/etc/grafana/grafana.ini --pidfile=/var/run/grafana/grafana-server.pid --packaging=deb 
cfg:default.paths.logs=/var/log/grafana cfg:default.paths.data=/var/lib/grafana cfg:default.paths.plugins=/var/lib/grafana/plugins cfg:defaul
t.paths.provisioning=/etc/grafana/provisioning

5 - Enabling service in boot

sudo systemctl enable grafana-server

6 - Access Grafana

Open Grafana at the following URL: http://host_ip:3000

Note: Open port 3000 in your firewall
Grafana's default credentials are:
username: admin password: admin

Note: a good security practice is to change the admin user password after the first login.

7 - Define Data Source

Select Data source option in Configuration section in left panel.

Select Prometheus datasource type.

Define Prometheus name and URL.

Click in Save and test button.

8 - Import Dashboard

Upload file and click in load button.

Define name of Dashboard, select folder and click in import button.

If everything happens normally, your dashboard will appear on the screen.

Grafana Alerts

2 - Click the "Add Alertmanager" button

3 - Set the URL where your external alertmanager instance is installed and click on the "Add alertmanagers" button

4 - Access the panel inside the Dashboard that you want to add the alert, right-click on the panel and then click "Edit"

5 - Click the "Alert" tab and click the "Create alert rule from this panel" button to create an alert with a direct link to this panel.

6 - Define the name of the alert, the folder, the function, select the query and the limit that will be used for the alert.

7 - Set the field "evaluate every" and "for", if necessary add a custom label and then click "Save and exit"

Nginx Install and enable HTTPS connections with Let's Encrypt

sudo apt install nginx

Enable Nginx in boot:

sudo systemctl enable nginx

Certbot snap version install:

sudo snap install core; sudo snap refresh core
sudo snap install --classic certbot
sudo ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot
sudo certbot --nginx

Configure /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default :

location / {
                # First attempt to serve request as file, then
                # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
                proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
        }


        location /api/live {
                proxy_http_version 1.1;
                proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
                proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
                proxy_pass http://localhost:3000/;
        }

        location /grafana/ {
                proxy_pass         http://localhost:3000/;
                proxy_set_header   Host $Host;
                proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;
        }

Configure /etc/grafana/grafana.ini :

[server]

root_url = %(protocol)s://%(domain)s:/grafana
serve_from_sub_path = true

Restart nginx and grafana-server services :

sudo systemctl restart grafana-server
sudo systemctl restart nginx

Configuring names in hosts file

1 - Edit /etc/hosts file

Define the names that will be used for each host, and put them in the file /etc/hosts, follow exemple:

sudo nano /etc/hosts

nameofhost1 10.0.0.1
nameofhost2 10.0.0.2
nameofhost3 10.0.0.3

2 - Test configuration with ping command

ping nameofhost

Something like this will appear:

PING localhost (10.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ip6-localhost (10.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.012 ms
64 bytes from ip6-localhost (10.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.042 ms

if the IP address that returns after the command matches the name you put in the /etc/hosts file, the configuration is correct

Now in the configuration of prometheus you can configure the host name instead of the IP

  - job_name: "Validators"
    static_configs:
      - targets: ["nameofhost1:9100","nameofhost2:9100","nameofhost3:9100"]

GitHub OAuth2 Authentication

1 - Register your application with GitHub

To enable the GitHub OAuth2 you must register your application with GitHub. GitHub will generate a client ID and secret key for you to use. When you create the application you will need to specify a callback URL. Specify this as callback:

https://myrealdomain.com/grafana/login/github

Access your organization

Access Settings of your organization

Access Developer section and select OAuth App

Click in "New OAuth App"

Define OAuth app info

Get Client ID and generate new client secret

Store your Client ID and Client secret for alertmanager configuration

2 - Set root_url in grafana.ini file

sudo nano /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
[server]
root_url = https://myrealdomain.com/grafana
serve_from_sub_path = true

3 - Enable GitHub in Grafana in grafana.ini file

sudo nano /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
[auth.github]
enabled = true
allow_sign_up = true
client_id = YOUR_GITHUB_APP_CLIENT_ID
client_secret = YOUR_GITHUB_APP_CLIENT_SECRET
scopes = user:email,read:org
auth_url = https://github.com/login/oauth/authorize
token_url = https://github.com/login/oauth/access_token
api_url = https://api.github.com/user
# space-delimited organization names
allowed_organizations = organization1 organization2