Cloud Native Programming with Golang

Running Grafana on Docker

Running Grafana is equally as easy as running Prometheus. Start by setting up a volume for persistent storage:

$ docker volume create grafana-data 

Then, start the actual container and attach it to the monitoring network (not the myevents network; Grafana needs to communicate with the Prometheus server, but it will not have any need to communicate with your backend services directly):

$ docker container run \ 
    -v grafana-data \ 
    -p 3000:3000 \ 
    --name grafana \ 
    --network monitoring \ 
    grafana/grafana:4.2.0 

After this, you will be able to access Grafana in your browser on http://localhost:3000. The default credentials are the username admin and the password admin.

Gafana home page

On your first access, you will be prompted ...