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FFMWU prometheus

Summary

Prometheus ansible role based on williamyeh.prometheus

This Ansible role has the following features for Prometheus:

  • Install specific versions of Prometheus server, Node exporter, Alertmanager.
  • Handlers for restart/reload/stop events;
  • Bare bone configuration (real configuration should be left to user's template files; see Usage section below).

Role Variables

Mandatory variables

The components to be installed:

# Supported components:
#
#   [Server components]
#     - "prometheus"
#     - "alertmanager"
#
#   [Exporter components]
#     - "node_exporter"
#
prometheus_components

Optional variables: general settings

User-configurable defaults:

# user and group
prometheus_user:   prometheus
prometheus_group:  prometheus


# directory for executable files
prometheus_install_path:   /opt/prometheus

# directory for configuration files
prometheus_config_path:    /etc/prometheus

# directory for temporary files
prometheus_download_path:  /tmp

# version of helper utility "gosu"
gosu_version:  "1.10"

Optional variables: Prometheus server

User-configurable defaults:

# which version?
prometheus_version:  2.0.0

# directory for rule files
prometheus_rule_path:  {{ prometheus_config_path }}/rules

# directory for file_sd files
prometheus_file_sd_config_path:  {{ prometheus_config_path }}/tgroups

# directory for runtime database
prometheus_db_path:   /var/lib/prometheus

User-installable configuration file (see doc for details):

# main conf template relative to `playbook_dir`;
# to be installed to "{{ prometheus_config_path }}/prometheus.yml"
prometheus_conf_main

User-installable rule files (see doc for details):

# rule files to be installed to "{{ prometheus_rule_path }}" directory;
# dict fields:
#   - key: memo for this rule
#   - value:
#     - src:  file relative to `playbook_dir`
#     - dest: target file relative to `{{ prometheus_rule_path }}`
prometheus_rule_files

Additional command-line arguments, if any (use prometheus --help to see the full list of arguments):

prometheus_opts

Optional variables: Node exporter

User-configurable defaults:

# which version?
node_exporter_version:  0.15.1

Additional command-line arguments, if any (use node_exporter --help to see the full list of arguments):

node_exporter_opts

Optional variables: Alertmanager

User-configurable defaults:

# which version?
alertmanager_version:  0.10.0

# directory for runtime database (currently for `silences.json`)
alertmanager_db_path: /var/lib/alertmanager

User-installable alertmanager conf file (see doc for details): See files directory alertmanager.yml

Additional command-line arguments, if any (use alertmanager --help to see the full list of arguments):

prometheus_alertmanager_opts

Handlers

Prometheus server:

  • reload prometheus

Alertmanager:

  • reload alertmanager

Usage

Step 1: add role

Add role name service-prometheus to your playbook file.

Step 2: add variables

Set vars in your playbook file, if necessary.

Simple example:

---
# file: simple-playbook.yml

- hosts: all
  become: True
  roles:
    - service-prometheus

  vars:
    prometheus_components: [ "prometheus", "alertmanager" ]

Step 3: copy user's config files, if necessary

More practical example:

---
# file: complex-playbook.yml

- hosts: all
  become: True
  roles:
    - service-prometheus

  vars:
    prometheus_components:
      - prometheus
      - node_exporter
      - alertmanager

    prometheus_rule_files:
      this_is_rule_1_InstanceDown:
        src:  some/path/basic.rules
        dest: basic.rules

Step 4: browse the default Prometheus pages

Open the page in your browser:

  • Prometheus - http://HOST:9090 or http://HOST:9090/consoles/node.html

  • Alertmanager - http://HOST:9093

License

MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.