Script to start prometheus and grafana using docker

#!/bin/bash

# Start prometheus server
docker run -d -p 9090:9090 --restart unless-stopped \
  -v /home/ubuntu/graph/prometheus:/etc/prometheus \
  -v /home/ubuntu/graph/prometheus:/prometheus \
  --user $(id -u) --name prometheus prom/prometheus \
  --config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml

# Start prometheus node exporter which collects node resource metrics
docker run -d -p 9100:9100 --restart unless-stopped \
  --user $(id -u) --name node-exporter prom/node-exporter

# Start grafana
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --restart unless-stopped \
  -v /home/ubuntu/graph/grafana:/var/lib/grafana \
  --user $(id -u) --name grafana grafana/grafana


Assume that directories exists

    /home/ubuntu/graph/prometheus
    /home/ubuntu/graph/grafana

#Using graphite seems to be the better option since it allows posting data to it.
#Here is how to start it.

docker run -d   --name graphite   -p 8080:80   -p 2003:2003   sitespeedio/graphite:1.1.3

then access the web UI at 8080.

Run the following command to post some random data.

while true; do echo "fabric.tong.diceroll;nn=$((RANDOM%30));john=100 $((RANDOM % 100)) -1" | nc -q0 192.168.56.32 2003;sleep 3; done

The above command actually post metric named fabric.tong.diceroll with two tags, one is named nn, one is named john.