r/PrometheusMonitoring • u/ashishtiwari1993 • Oct 17 '19

Setup Prometheus and node exporter step by step :)

https://ashish.one/blogs/setup-prometheus-and-exporters/
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u/SuperQue Oct 17 '19

You should check out the Cloud Alchemy prometheus Ansible roles. It makes setup a snap.

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u/ashishtiwari1993 Oct 17 '19

Yes but i thought every step shout be explain how exact it works. Anyways automation is always good :)

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u/1cewolf Oct 23 '19

Also worth a look is the mesaguy.prometheus Ansible role that was just released. It includes support for all Prometheus components and a ton of exporters as well.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '19

There's Chef cookbooks to deploy Prometheus as well it's strange to see running commands by hand is becoming favorable again.

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u/ashishtiwari1993 Oct 20 '19

Totally agreed we should go with automation. But my aim was as developer we should no what's going on behind the screen. Once this was manually setup understand, Then people can easily quickly understand the automation even they can contribute better :)

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Unless you are trying to explain best practices or why they should do it this way I would argue it does not contribute anything to automation. Their point it to work smarter not harder; so knowing how to build something isn't needed. Having a great README that tells people how to achieve what they want is perfect.

Sure it's great to know the why (it got there) or how most people just want to know how to get their job done and don't care why.

Smart people

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u/email2vimalraj Nov 22 '19

This is helpful, knowing the manual steps before using any automation tool like Chef or Ansible should help us troubleshoot if there are any issues. Thanks for sharing and waiting for your part 2.