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diff --git a/exporting/WALKTHROUGH.md b/exporting/WALKTHROUGH.md index 24afd2097..c17ee1650 100644 --- a/exporting/WALKTHROUGH.md +++ b/exporting/WALKTHROUGH.md @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ reading to migrate this tutorial to a VM or Server of any sort. Let's start another container in the same fashion as we did the Netdata container. ```sh -docker run -it --name prometheus --hostname prometheus +docker run -it --name prometheus --hostname prometheus \ --network=netdata-tutorial -p 9090:9090 centos:latest '/bin/bash' ``` @@ -110,6 +110,12 @@ files later in this tutorial. yum install vim -y ``` +You will also need `wget` and `curl` to download files and `sudo` if you are not root. + +```sh +yum install curl sudo wget -y +``` + Prometheus provides a tarball of their latest stable versions [here](https://prometheus.io/download/). Let's download the latest version and install into your container. @@ -129,7 +135,7 @@ This should get Prometheus installed into the container. Let's test that we can interface. ```sh -/opt/prometheus/prometheus +/opt/prometheus/prometheus --config.file=/opt/prometheus/prometheus.yml ``` Now attempt to go to <http://localhost:9090/>. You should be presented with the Prometheus homepage. This is a good @@ -216,7 +222,7 @@ the `chart` dimension. If you'd like you can combine the `chart` and `instance` Let's give this a try: `netdata_system_cpu_percentage_average{chart="system.cpu", instance="netdata:19999"}` This is the basics of using Prometheus to query Netdata. I'd advise everyone at this point to read [this -page](/exporting/prometheus/#using-netdata-with-prometheus). The key point here is that Netdata can export metrics from +page](/exporting/prometheus/README.md#using-netdata-with-prometheus). The key point here is that Netdata can export metrics from its internal DB or can send metrics _as-collected_ by specifying the `source=as-collected` URL parameter like so. <http://localhost:19999/api/v1/allmetrics?format=prometheus&help=yes&types=yes&source=as-collected> If you choose to use this method you will need to use Prometheus's set of functions here: <https://prometheus.io/docs/querying/functions/> to |