{"id":1774,"date":"2020-07-29T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2020-07-26T18:52:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T15:52:36","slug":"how-to-integrate-and-visualize-prometheus-metrics-in-grafana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/tutorial-how-to\/how-to-integrate-and-visualize-prometheus-metrics-in-grafana\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Integrate and Visualize Prometheus Metrics In Grafana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Generally speaking, Prometheus is good, after all he was a titan, created humanity, gave us fire. And the other Prometheus is also good however we need a way to visualize it. Currently the official recommendation is to use Grafana. Prometheus has a plugin for this that can be configured as a data source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prometheus comes with its own sets of limitations, like trending which requires metric data that is stored in Prometheus to be prepared in such a way that increases human readability. Looking at a Table getting filled with numbers overtime does not provide a neat overview of the overall system metrics, but on the other hand, a graph that was made with the same data will be easy to understand and draw conclusions from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter Grafana which specializes in the graphical display of values from various tools and now supports a large number of data sources. Grafana is modular by nature, you can decide what you want to be displayed, and how, and the graphs you want to combine. This is done on Dashboards, enough talking now let’s configure a Dashboard for our Prometheus server that we configured previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To setup Prometheus and Node exporter metrics, please follow the below tutorials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Setup Prometheus on Linux<\/a><\/li>
  2. Setup Node Exporter<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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