Hands-On High Performance with Go

Grafana

We can encapsulate all of these golden signals into a Grafana dashboard. We can run Grafana locally by invoking:

docker run  -it --rm --name grafana -d -p 3000:3000 --net prometheus grafana/grafana

We need to log into the Grafana portal by visiting http://localhost:3000 and using the default username and password combination: Username: admin Password: admin

We can then set up a new password to our liking after we've logged in.

After we've logged in, we click Add data source at the top of the page and select Prometheus on the next page. We then enter our local IP address and click Save & Test. If all works as expected, we should see the Data source is working popup at the bottom of the screen:

After we complete this, we visit http://localhost:3000/dashboard/import ...