Install-Prometheus-Grafana-Monitor-Windows-Server-Using-PrometheusGrafana.txt

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A ] Install Prometheus
Prometheus Download Page --- https://prometheus.io/download/
sudo apt-get update
sudo useradd --system --no-create-home --shell /bin/false prometheus
wget https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v2.51.2/prometheus-2.51.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xvf prometheus-2.51.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
cd prometheus-2.51.2.linux-amd64/
sudo mkdir -p /data /etc/prometheus            ////Create a data folder at the root directory, with a prometheus folder inside.
sudo mv prometheus promtool /usr/local/bin/
sudo mv consoles/ console_libraries/ /etc/prometheus/
sudo mv prometheus.yml /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
sudo chown -R prometheus:prometheus /etc/prometheus/ /data/
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B ]  Configuring Prometheus as a service

cd /etc/systemd/system/
sudo touch prometheus.service
sudo nano prometheus.service
[Unit]
Description=Prometheus
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

StartLimitIntervalSec=500
StartLimitBurst=5

[Service]
User=prometheus
Group=prometheus
Type=simple
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/prometheus \
  --config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
  --storage.tsdb.path=/data \
  --web.console.templates=/etc/prometheus/consoles \
  --web.console.libraries=/etc/prometheus/console_libraries \
  --web.listen-address=0.0.0.0:9090 \
  --web.enable-lifecycle

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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C ] 
sudo systemctl enable prometheus
sudo systemctl start prometheus
sudo systemctl status prometheus

http://192.168.0.148:9090/
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D ] Install Grafana
sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https software-properties-common
wget -q -O - https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install grafana
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E ]
sudo systemctl enable grafana-server
sudo systemctl start grafana-server
sudo systemctl status grafana-server

http://192.168.0.148:3000
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F ] Install windows_exporterin Window Server

1 -- Download msi file from https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter/releases

2 -- Install msi file and check windows_exporter service under services.msc

3 -- Now yur exporter is running and it should start exposing metrics on http://localhost:9182/metrics
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G ] Binding Prometheus to the Windows exporter

1 -- Add below 2 lines below - job_name: in prometheus.yml file
     scrape_interval: 6s
     scrape_timeout: 5s

2 -- Add Windows server under targets in yaml file
     - targets: ["localhost:9090", "192.168.0.149:9182"]

3--Check the indentation of the prometheus config file with below command
$ promtool check config /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml

4 -- Restart service
     sudo systemctl restart prometheus
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H ] Import Grafana Dashboard
Dashboard ID -- 14694