Our first task is to get the Prometheus server up and running so that we can start serving real data. Prometheus is a powerful open source time-series database and monitoring system originally developed by SoundCloud. It followed Kubernetes to become the second Cloud Native Computing Foundation graduating incubation project. Grafana, having partnered with the Prometheus maintainers, includes the Prometheus data source as a first-class data source plugin.
Tutorial code, dashboards, and other helpful files for this chapter can be found in this book's GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Grafana-7.0/tree/master/Chapter04.
Installing Prometheus from Docker
We're going to start up Prometheus from Docker Compose and point it to a local configuration file. First, let's create the following configuration file and save it to our local ch4/prometheus directory as prometheus.yml:
global...
