Installation - Agent

Windows

We will install Prometheus as an agent. That means it will not store locally long term data, but only temporary, until they get send to the server defined in the remote_write block in the configuration. Agent will scrape metrics from local exporters and then send the data to the remote server.

• Create configuration file for prometheus

• Place the configuration file in C:\monitoring\prometheus

• Download prometheus from here

  Select the latest version and the file name will be like this: prometheus-XX.YY.ZZ.windows-amd64.zip Unzip it, and copy all files in a folder like C:\monitoring\prometheus

• Install Prometheus as a service

  In order to install prometheus as a service, we need to do the following Open command line as Administrator and navigate to the path where nssm is stored.

  cd C:\monitoring\nssm\win64
  nssm.exe install prometheus C:\monitoring\prometheus\prometheus.exe --enable-feature=agent --config.file=C:\monitoring\prometheus\prometheus.yml

• Make sure service is started

  • Press ⊞ Win + R
  • Type services.msc and press Enter
  • Check prometheus service is Running and Automatic
  • You can also run the following from from an open command line as Administrator

  sc start prometheus

Linux