Observability with Prometheus and Grafana

Monitoring Grafana Using Prometheus

If monitoring is critical for your case, understanding the performance of Grafana (and Prometheus) is essential to ensure the reliability of your monitoring stack.

Grafana can be monitored, since it exposes Prometheus-compatible metrics. To see these metrics, navigate to http://:3000/metrics in your web browser or use curl from the command line:

curl http://localhost:3000/metrics

To add Grafana as a target, you need to update the Prometheus configuration file. Run the following command to add additional scrape configurations for Grafana:

cat < /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
global:
  scrape_interval: 5s

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'prometheus'
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:9090']
  - job_name: 'grafana'
    static_configs: