Set up Prometheus for comprehensive metric collection, storage, and monitoring of infrastructure and applications. Use when implementing metrics collection, setting up monitoring infrastructure, or configuring alerting systems.
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Complete guide to Prometheus setup, metric collection, scrape configuration, and recording rules.
Configure Prometheus for comprehensive metric collection, alerting, and monitoring of infrastructure and applications.
┌──────────────┐
│ Applications │ ← Instrumented with client libraries
└──────┬───────┘
│ /metrics endpoint
↓
┌──────────────┐
│ Prometheus │ ← Scrapes metrics periodically
│ Server │
└──────┬───────┘
│
├─→ AlertManager (alerts)
├─→ Grafana (visualization)
└─→ Long-term storage (Thanos/Cortex)
helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
helm install prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack \
--namespace monitoring \
--create-namespace \
--set prometheus.prometheusSpec.retention=30d \
--set prometheus.prometheusSpec.storageVolumeSize=50Gi
version: '3.8'
services:
prometheus:
image: prom/prometheus:latest
ports:
- "9090:9090"
volumes:
- ./prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
- prometheus-data:/prometheus
command:
- '--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml'
- '--storage.tsdb.path=/prometheus'
- '--storage.tsdb.retention.time=30d'
volumes:
prometheus-data:
prometheus.yml:
global:
scrape_interval: 15s
evaluation_interval: 15s
external_labels:
cluster: 'production'
region: 'us-west-2'
# Alertmanager configuration
alerting:
alertmanagers:
- static_configs:
- targets:
- alertmanager:9093
# Load rules files
rule_files:
- /etc/prometheus/rules/*.yml
# Scrape configurations
scrape_configs:
# Prometheus itself
- job_name: 'prometheus'
static_configs:
- targets: ['localhost:9090']
# Node exporters
- job_name: 'node-exporter'
static_configs:
- targets:
- 'node1:9100'
- 'node2:9100'
- 'node3:9100'
relabel_configs:
- source_labels: [__address__]
target_label: instance
regex: '([^:]+)(:[0-9]+)?'
replacement: '${1}'
# Kubernetes pods with annotations
- job_name: 'kubernetes-pods'
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: pod
relabel_configs:
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io_scrape]
action: keep
regex: true
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io_path]
action: replace
target_label: __metrics_path__
regex: (.+)
- source_labels: [__address__, __meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io_port]
action: replace
regex: ([^:]+)(?::\d+)?;(\d+)
replacement: $1:$2
target_label: __address__
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_namespace]
action: replace
target_label: namespace
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_name]
action: replace
target_label: pod
# Application metrics
- job_name: 'my-app'
static_configs:
- targets:
- 'app1.example.com:9090'
- 'app2.example.com:9090'
metrics_path: '/metrics'
scheme: 'https'
tls_config:
ca_file: /etc/prometheus/ca.crt
cert_file: /etc/prometheus/client.crt
key_file: /etc/prometheus/client.key
scrape_configs:
- job_name: 'static-targets'
static_configs:
- targets: ['host1:9100', 'host2:9100']
labels:
env: 'production'
region: 'us-west-2'
scrape_configs:
- job_name: 'file-sd'
file_sd_configs:
- files:
- /etc/prometheus/targets/*.json
- /etc/prometheus/targets/*.yml
refresh_interval: 5m
targets/production.json:
[
{
"targets": ["app1:9090", "app2:9090"],
"labels": {
"env": "production",
"service": "api"
}
}
]
scrape_configs:
- job_name: 'kubernetes-services'
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: service
relabel_configs:
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_service_annotation_prometheus_io_scrape]
action: keep
regex: true
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_service_annotation_prometheus_io_scheme]
action: replace
target_label: __scheme__
regex: (https?)
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_service_annotation_prometheus_io_path]
action: replace
target_label: __metrics_path__
regex: (.+)
Create pre-computed metrics for frequently queried expressions:
# /etc/prometheus/rules/recording_rules.yml
groups:
- name: api_metrics
interval: 15s
rules:
# HTTP request rate per service
- record: job:http_requests:rate5m
expr: sum by (job) (rate(http_requests_total[5m]))
# Error rate percentage
- record: job:http_requests_errors:rate5m
expr: sum by (job) (rate(http_requests_total{status=~"5.."}[5m]))
- record: job:http_requests_error_rate:percentage
expr: |
(job:http_requests_errors:rate5m / job:http_requests:rate5m) * 100
# P95 latency
- record: job:http_request_duration:p95
expr: |
histogram_quantile(0.95,
sum by (job, le) (rate(http_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m]))
)
- name: resource_metrics
interval: 30s
rules:
# CPU utilization percentage
- record: instance:node_cpu:utilization
expr: |
100 - (avg by (instance) (rate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode="idle"}[5m])) * 100)
# Memory utilization percentage
- record: instance:node_memory:utilization
expr: |
100 - ((node_memory_MemAvailable_bytes / node_memory_MemTotal_bytes) * 100)
# Disk usage percentage
- record: instance:node_disk:utilization
expr: |
100 - ((node_filesystem_avail_bytes / node_filesystem_size_bytes) * 100)
# /etc/prometheus/rules/alert_rules.yml
groups:
- name: availability
interval: 30s
rules:
- alert: ServiceDown
expr: up{job="my-app"} == 0
for: 1m
labels:
severity: critical
annotations:
summary: "Service {{ $labels.instance }} is down"
description: "{{ $labels.job }} has been down for more than 1 minute"
- alert: HighErrorRate
expr: job:http_requests_error_rate:percentage > 5
for: 5m
labels:
severity: warning
annotations:
summary: "High error rate for {{ $labels.job }}"
description: "Error rate is {{ $value }}% (threshold: 5%)"
- alert: HighLatency
expr: job:http_request_duration:p95 > 1
for: 5m
labels:
severity: warning
annotations:
summary: "High latency for {{ $labels.job }}"
description: "P95 latency is {{ $value }}s (threshold: 1s)"
- name: resources
interval: 1m
rules:
- alert: HighCPUUsage
expr: instance:node_cpu:utilization > 80
for: 5m
labels:
severity: warning
annotations:
summary: "High CPU usage on {{ $labels.instance }}"
description: "CPU usage is {{ $value }}%"
- alert: HighMemoryUsage
expr: instance:node_memory:utilization > 85
for: 5m
labels:
severity: warning
annotations:
summary: "High memory usage on {{ $labels.instance }}"
description: "Memory usage is {{ $value }}%"
- alert: DiskSpaceLow
expr: instance:node_disk:utilization > 90
for: 5m
labels:
severity: critical
annotations:
summary: "Low disk space on {{ $labels.instance }}"
description: "Disk usage is {{ $value }}%"
# Validate configuration
promtool check config prometheus.yml
# Validate rules
promtool check rules /etc/prometheus/rules/*.yml
# Test query
promtool query instant http://localhost:9090 'up'
Check scrape targets:
curl http://localhost:9090/api/v1/targets
Check configuration:
curl http://localhost:9090/api/v1/status/config
Test query:
curl 'http://localhost:9090/api/v1/query?query=up'
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