Hello! Alexey Matveev here.

In this article, I’ll be showing you how Portainer and Prometheus work together using docker containers.

Here is our file structure after we have created all files from this article:

- /home/user/docker
  docker-compose.yml
  - data
    - prometheus
      - config
        prometheus.yml
        rules.yml
    - alertmanager
      - config
        alertmanager.yml

Files for Prometheus

Our Prometheus container will select metrics from Jira and send alerts to a Slack channel. You can watch this video for more details.

prometheus.yml

global:
  scrape_interval:     15s
  evaluation_interval: 15s
rule_files:
  - "/etc/prometheus/rules.yml"
alerting:
 alertmanagers:
   - static_configs:
     - targets:
       - alertmanager:9093
scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'prometheus'
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:9090']
  - job_name: 'jira'
    scheme: https
    metrics_path: '/jira/plugins/servlet/prometheus/metrics'
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:8085']

rules.yml

groups:
  - name: AllInstances
    rules:
    - alert: InstanceDown
      expr: up == 0
      for: 1m
      annotations:
        title: 'Instance {{ $labels.instance }} down'
        description: '{{ $labels.instance }} of job {{ $labels.job }} has been down for more than 1 minute.'
      labels:
        severity: 'critical'

    - alert: TooManyUsers
      expr: jira_all_active_users_gauge > 1
      annotations:
        title: 'Too many users for {{ $labels.instance }}'
        description: '{{ $labels.instance }} of job {{ $labels.job }} has more than 1 user.'
      labels:
        severity: 'meduim'

alertmanager.yml

global:
  resolve_timeout: 30s
  slack_api_url: 'your slack api url'

route:
  receiver: 'slack-notifications'

receivers:
- name: 'slack-notifications'
  slack_configs:
  - channel: '#alerts'
    send_resolved: true
    icon_url: https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/3380462
    title: |-
      [{{ .Status | toUpper }}{{ if eq .Status "firing" }}:{{ .Alerts.Firing | len }}{{ end }}] {{ .CommonLabels.alertname }} for {{ .Comm$
      {{- if gt (len .CommonLabels) (len .GroupLabels) -}}
        {{" "}}(
        {{- with .CommonLabels.Remove .GroupLabels.Names }}
          {{- range $index, $label := .SortedPairs -}}
            {{ if $index }}, {{ end }}
            {{- $label.Name }}="{{ $label.Value -}}"
          {{- end }}
        {{- end -}}
        )
      {{- end }}
    text: >-
      {{ range .Alerts -}}
      *Alert:* {{ .Annotations.title }}{{ if .Labels.severity }} - `{{ .Labels.severity }}`{{ end }}

      *Description:* {{ .Annotations.description }}

      *Details:*
        {{ range .Labels.SortedPairs }} • *{{ .Name }}:* `{{ .Value }}`
        {{ end }}

Run Portainer

Portainer lets you manage your docker containers via web UI. Let’s create a docker-compose.yml file in the /home/user/docker folder:

version: '3'
services:
  portainer:
    image: portainer/portainer
    container_name: portainer
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - ./portainer:/data
    ports:
      - 8080:9000
    expose:
      - 9000

Run this docker-compose.yml file with:

docker-compose up -d

Now our Portainer runs on port 8080.

Create Prometheus stack in Portainer

Now we can log in to Portainer with localhost:8080.

We will be asked to set the password for the admin user:

Set the password and push the Create user button:

Choose Local:

Push the Connect button:

Click on the available docker:

Click on the Stacks section:

Click on the Add stack button and add the following code:

version: '2'
services:
  prometheus:
    image: prom/prometheus:latest
    container_name: monitoring_prometheus
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /home/user/docker/data/prometheus/config:/etc/prometheus/
    command:
      - '--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml'
    expose:
      - 9090
    ports:
      - 9090:9090
   
  alertmanager:
    image: prom/alertmanager:latest
    volumes:
      - /home/user/docker/data/alertmanager/config:/etc/alertmanager/
    ports:
      - 9093:9093
    expose:
      - 9093

Push the Deploy button:

Click on the Prometheus stack:

We have Prometheus on localhost:9090 and alertmanager on localhost:9093. Now, try it out yourself!

ALEXEY MATVEEV
| Software Developer for Cprime Apps

Tagged with: Docker, Portainer, Prometheus Exporter PRO for Jira, Slack

Categorized in: Containers, UI

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