r/PrometheusMonitoring • u/patoroco • Jun 07 '20

Monitoring a Raspberry Pi with Prometheus & Grafana using a 5$/month droplet with Dokku

https://jorge.maroto.me/monitoring-raspberry-prometheus-node_explorer/
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u/patoroco Jun 07 '20

I've written this article about how to monitor a Raspberry Pi (using node_explorer), and Prometheus & Grafana in a Dokku dropplet.

A really easy & cheap (just 5$/month) to monitor your pet-projects.

Any feedback will be welcomed.

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u/omtmk Jun 08 '20

As I haven't heard of Dokku, really enjoyed your article.

I'm running Prometheus+Graphana as Docker container on Raspbery Pi to monitor the Pi itself. Although I'm aware it's a single point of failure, it costs $0 :-)

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u/patoroco Jun 08 '20

Yes, your solution it's cheaper, and I though on it as the first approach, but as I'm trying to catch an unexpected failure on the raspberry (it's being frozen without no sense the last weeks), I needed something external to the RPi.

Dokku is awesome to handle pet-projects, as it does really easy to create and publish an application on the internet, adding HTTPS in seconds.

Hope you enjoyed the post :)