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18 tutorials tagged monitoring
Tutorial
Grafana in Docker
Host a local Grafana instance in a Docker container
docker · grafana · monitoring
~3 minDifficulty: beginner
Tutorial
Prometheus as a Service
Set up Prometheus as a service to monitor your system on Ubuntu 24.04
prometheus · monitoring
~5 minDifficulty: intermediate
Tutorial
Grafana as a Service
Install Grafana locally as a service on Ubuntu 24.04.
grafana · monitoring
~7 minDifficulty: intermediate
Tutorial
Monitoring Your Docker Resources and Containers Part 1
The first part of a three-part series on monitoring Docker resources. Covers installing and configuring Prometheus via Portainer stack and connecting it as a data source in Grafana.
docker · monitoring · homelab
~5 minDifficulty: intermediate
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Monitoring Your Docker Resources and Containers Part 2
Part 2 of the Docker monitoring series. Covers installing Node Exporter as a host service and cAdvisor as a Docker container, then connecting both to Prometheus.
docker · monitoring · homelab
~7 minDifficulty: intermediate
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Monitoring Your Docker Resources and Containers Part 3
Part 3 of the Docker monitoring series. Covers importing pre-built Grafana dashboards for Node Exporter and cAdvisor, including fixes for memory usage queries.
docker · monitoring · homelab
~5 minDifficulty: intermediate