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Metrics with Prometheus StatsD Exporter and Grafana

Kirk Lewis on July 31, 2019

This post explains how to convert StatsD metrics using the Prometheus StatsD-exporter, and later visualising them with Grafana. I explain from th...
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wyw-linux •

Below is the docker compose file for this demo.

docker-compose.yaml

prom-statsd-exporter:
  image: prom/statsd-exporter
  ports:
  - 8125:8125/udp
  - 9102:9102
  command:
  - --statsd.mapping-config=/tmp/test-mapping.yml
  - --statsd.listen-udp=:8125
  - --web.listen-address=:9102
  volumes:
  - $pwd/test-mapping.yml:/tmp/test-mapping.yml

prometheus:
  image: prom/prometheus
  ports:
  - 9090:9090
  links:
  - prom-statsd-exporter
  volumes:
  - $pwd/prometheus.yml:/prometheus.yml
  command:
  - --config.file=/prometheus.yml
  - --log.level=debug
  - --web.listen-address=:9090
  - --web.page-title='Prometheus - Test Metrics Demo'

grafana:
  image: grafana/grafana
  links:
  - prometheus
  ports:
  - 3000:3000
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Dmitry Vasilev • • Edited

Uh, I wish you'd share the sources repo. But the article is brilliant, thank you!

To wrap all docker commands via docker-compose.yml and put all the config files in the same repo - that would be super helpful.

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martin-charles •

Is it possible to monitor Linux OS ( CPU,memory etc) and send the same data over statsd? i know we have node-exporter to do that, but looking for a POC to send the linux based metrics over statd

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Ron F. •

0.5 is 50th percentile / median, not 5th percentile.