markessien/lorona

lorona

A monitoring solution for servers and docker images. An exporter for prometheus.

Install on Ubuntu

• Login to Ubuntu
• Install golang with 'sudo apt install golang-go'
• Run git clone [email protected]:markessien/lorona.git
• Enter the lorona directory with 'cd lorona'
• Type go get ./... to install all dependencies
• Type go build
• You now have an executable file called lorona
• Copy settings.sample.yaml to settings.yaml in the same directory
• Edit settings.yaml to point to monitor everything you are interested in
• Start lorona using ./lorona.
• If you need prometheus metrics, it listens on 2112 by default
• Open :2112/metrics to get the prometheus metrics
• Create file /etc/systemd/system/lorona.service
• Paste this in:

[Unit]
Description=Lorona monitoring
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
User=<your username>
ExecStart=/<path to lorona>/lorona -settings=/<path to lorona>/settings.yaml -log=/<path to lorona>/logs/

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Start it with systemctl start lorona
• Test if it is running fine with systemctl status lorona
• If all is fine, enable it with systemctl enable lorona

Notes

• There is a sample grafana dashboard in the repo