Note: ChatGPT did most of the work on this one...

1. Start it up using Docker Compose via the _runMonitor.bat or _runMonitor.sh scripts (depending on your system type), because we need to set up as environment variable for the system root.

• assumes you already have Docker properly set up on your system
• docker-commpose.yml is set up to restart:always so it will automatically come back up when you restart the computer

Windows

C:\your\repo\folder\> _runMonitor

Linux

user@system:~/your/repo/folder$ sudo chmod +x ./_runMonitor.sh
user@system:~/your/repo/folder$ ./_runMonitor.sh

2. Navigate to: https://localhost:3000 to load the Grafana UI
3. Change the default password for Grafana
4. From the Data sources link in the left-side nav panel, click Add new data source to add Prometheus as a data source

• Prometheus server URL *: http://prometheus:9090
• Prometheus type: Prometheus
• Prometheus version: > 2.50.x
• Click Save & Test

5. From the Dashboards link in the left-side nav panel, click New then Import

• Enter '893' (one that ChatGPT told me about) for Docker monitoring, then click Load
• Select the Prometheus data source that you created above, then click Import

6. From the Dashboards link in the left-side nav panel, select the Docker and system monitoring dashboard to view your stats