this is a Prometheus and Grafana playgound

Usage

Build and install the Windows 2019 base image.

Launch the prometheus machine:

vagrant up prometheus --provider=virtualbox # or --provider=libvirt

Logon at the Windows console.

Prometheus is available at:

https://prometheus.example.com

Alertmanager is available at:

https://alertmanager.example.com

NB Alert emails are sent to a local SMTP server and can be seen at http://localhost:8025.

Grafana is available at:

https://grafana.example.com

NB Login as admin and password admin.

Exporters are listening in the loopback interface and are made available from the caddy reverse proxy (which requires a client certificate):

Prometheusbeat is also installed. It's used as a prometheus remote write endpoint, which uses Elasticsearch as a long term storage solution.

Scaling

• Cortex
• M3DB
• Thanos

Reference

• Exporters and their default port allocations
• Prometheus Deep Dive (KubeCon NA 2019)