Prometheus uptime monitoring quickstart

Refactored as a simple starting point to help introduce you to Prometheus based monitoring.

Services

You only need visit

• Prometheus http://0.0.0.0:9090

Which integrates with these "targets" via the prometheus configuration.

• Blackbox exporter that does the httping http://0.0.0.0:9115
• Alert manager that does the alerting http://0.0.0.0:9093

Generating config files

make

The alert manager configuration needs .env file with at least $FROM, $TO, $SMARTHOST set at a minimum.

targets.yml are where you list out the hosts you want to monitor.

Reference

https://grafana.com/docs/administration/provisioning/