Raspberry Pi Computing: Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
Raspberry Pi Computing: Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
Measure, record, visualize and understand your systems
About the Book
If you've heard about the Raspberry Pi you may know that it provides a fantastic method to learn about using a computer and to develop some skills that go beyond the basics.
It has the ability to provide a bridge between the sometimes abstract computing environment and the physical world. In this case we are going to use it to set up a monitoring 'stack' consisting of the software platforms Prometheus and Grafana. This will allow us to measure and monitor a range of different aspects of computing technology including developing your own specialised monitoring.
What sort of things will we learn?
Good question!
- What sort of versions of the Raspberry Pi are there?
- What hardware do I need to get it up and going?
- What sort of operating system do I need and how do we install it.
- How do I do [Insert any number of cool things]?
Is this book for you?
It's not written for experts. It's put together as a guide to get you started if you're unsure about how to make the first move with a Raspberry Pi.
Why has the book been written?
Because in the process of learning things, it's a great way to remember them if you write them down :-).
Writing about how to do cool stuff with computers means that we're accumulating ways to help ourselves out when the going gets tricky. Making a book out of the information is a no-brainer since that way more people benefit from the process.
The awesome that is Leanpub.
The book has some information in it, but there will be updates over time. Publishing using Leanpub will allow readers to get easy notification of when updates and improvements are made.
Enjoy.
So we hope you get something out of the book, please excuse the sometimes light-hearted conversational manner in which we approach the topic and enjoy the Raspberry Pi!
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Table of Contents
-
Introduction
- Welcome!
- What are we trying to do?
- Who is this book for?
- What will we need?
- Why on earth did I write this rambling tome?
- Where can you get more information?
- The History of the Raspberry Pi
-
Raspberry Pi Versions
- Version Comparison
-
Raspberry Pi Peripherals
- SD Card
- Network
- Power supply
- Cases
-
Operating Systems
-
Welcome to Raspberry Pi OS
- Raspberry Pi OS and Raspbian
- Operating System Evolution
- Downloading
- Writing the Operating System image to the SD Card
- Enabling Secure Shell Access
- Powering On
-
The Command Line interface
- Raspberry Pi Software Configuration Tool
- Software Updates
-
Welcome to Raspberry Pi OS
-
Power Up the Pi
-
Static IP Address
-
The Netmask
- CIDR Notation
- Distinguish Dynamic from Static
- Default Gateway
-
Lets edit the
dhcpcd.conffile
-
The Netmask
-
Remote access
-
Remote access via SSH
- Setting up the Server (Raspberry Pi)
- Setting up the Client (Windows)
- WinSCP
-
Remote access via SSH
-
Static IP Address
- About Prometheus
- About Grafana
-
Installation
- Installing Prometheus
-
Installing Grafana
- Installing Grafana Manually
- Installing Grafana Automatically Using ‘apt-get’
- Using Grafana
-
Exporters
- Node Exporter
-
Prometheus Collector Configuration
-
global -
alerting -
rule_files -
scrape_configs
-
-
Adding a monitoring node to Prometheus
- Let’s see our new node in Grafana!
-
WMI exporter
- Installing the WMI exporter
- Adding adding our Windows exporter to Prometheus
- Let’s see our new node in Grafana!
-
Custom Exporters
-
Metrics
- Metric Types
- Metric Names
- Metric Labels
- Configuring the exporter
- Adding adding our custom exporter to Prometheus
- Creating a new graph in Grafana
-
Metrics
-
Dashboards
- Overview
-
New Panel
- Query Options
-
Visualization Options
- Graph
- Stat
- Gauge
- Bar Gauge
- Table
- Singlestat
- Text
- Heatmap
- Dashboard List
- News Panel
- Logs
- General
- Alerting
-
Upgrading Prometheus
- Download
- Stop the services
- Copy the configuration and data
- Run the new version manually and test
- Stop the newer version
- Change the directory names
- Start the services.
-
Upgrading Grafana
- Download
- Stop the old version
- Copy the configuration and data
- Run the new version manually and test
- Stop the newer version
- Change the directory names
- Start the Grafana service.
-
Linux Concepts
- What is Linux?
-
Linux Directory Structure
-
/ -
/bin -
/boot -
/dev -
/etc -
/etc/cron.d -
/etc/rc?.d -
/home -
/lib -
/lost+found -
/media -
/mnt -
/opt -
/proc -
/root -
/sbin -
/srv -
/tmp -
/usr -
/usr/bin -
/usr/lib -
/usr/local -
/usr/sbin -
/var -
/var/lib -
/var/log -
/var/spool -
/var/tmp
-
-
Everything is a file in Linux
- Traditional Files
- Directories
- System Information
- Devices
-
File Editing
- The nano Editor
-
The Commands
-
- Options
- Arguments
- Putting it all together
-
apt-get-
The
apt-getcommand -
apt-get update -
apt-get upgrade -
apt-get install -
apt-get remove
-
The
-
cd-
The
cdcommand - Options
- Arguments
- Examples
- Test yourself
-
The
-
ifconfig-
The
ifconfigcommand - Options
- Arguments
- Test yourself
-
The
-
mv-
The
mvcommand - Options
- Examples
- Test yourself
-
The
-
rm-
The
rmcommand - Options
- Arguments
- Test yourself
-
The
-
sudo-
The
sudocommand - The ‘sudoers’ file
-
sudovssu - Test yourself
-
The
-
wget-
The
wgetcommand - Test yourself
-
The
-
- Directory Structure Cheat Sheet
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