Grafana Cloud

Monitoring and observability with Grafana Cloud

Updated date: 2024-11-21

Grafana Cloud

With Grafana Cloud, enable observability — from operational dashboards to a fully centralized system and everything in between — without the overhead of building and maintaining your own stack

Metrics Monitoring

Installation

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit. I set it up on my local machine with the following steps:
- Download the latest version of Prometheus from the Prometheus repository
- Extract the tarball and navigate to the directory
- Check your grafana cloud account for your user id and token
- Add the following content to a prometheus.yml configuration file:
```
remote_write:
  - url: https://prometheus-prod-24-prod-eu-west-2.grafana.net/api/prom/push
    basic_auth:
    username: <your user id>
    password: <your token>
```
- Run the following command to start Prometheus:
```
./prometheus --config.file=prometheus.yml
```

Sample Screenshot

Metrics monitoring capture

Log Monitoring

Installation

Download promtail from the Loki repository

Extract the tarball and navigate to the directory. Then update the promtail-local-config.yaml configuration file with the following content:

server:
  http_listen_port: 0
  grpc_listen_port: 0

positions:
  filename: /tmp/positions.yaml

clients:
  - url: <your url>

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: system
    static_configs:
      - targets:
          - localhost
        labels:
          job: varlogs
          __path__: /var/log/*.log

Run the following command to start promtail: sudo ./promtail-linux-amd64 -config.file=promtail_config.yaml

Sample Screenshot

Log monitoring capture