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Grafana + Prometheus: Monitoring Stack

Install Prometheus and Grafana to monitor CPU, RAM, disk and network of your VPS with visual dashboards and alerting.

Prometheus collects metrics from the server, Grafana visualizes them in dashboards. Together they form the most widespread monitoring stack in Linux environments.

Architecture

VPS → node_exporter → Prometheus → Grafana → Browser
                                 ↓
                             Alertmanager → Email/Telegram

node_exporter: exports system metrics (CPU, RAM, disk, network)
Prometheus: scrapes and saves metrics over time
Grafana: web dashboard to visualize data

Install node_exporter

bash

# Latest version from https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases
NODE_EXPORTER_VERSION="1.8.2"

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v${NODE_EXPORTER_VERSION}/node_exporter-${NODE_EXPORTER_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xvf node_exporter-${NODE_EXPORTER_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz
mv node_exporter-${NODE_EXPORTER_VERSION}.linux-amd64/node_exporter /usr/local/bin/

systemd service for node_exporter

bash

useradd --no-create-home --shell /bin/false node_exporter

cat > /etc/systemd/system/node_exporter.service << 'EOF'
[Unit]
Description=Prometheus Node Exporter
After=network.target

[Service]
User=node_exporter
Group=node_exporter
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node_exporter \
  --web.listen-address=":9100" \
  --collector.systemd \
  --collector.processes
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now node_exporter

Verify: curl http://localhost:9100/metrics | head -20

Install Prometheus

bash

PROMETHEUS_VERSION="2.53.0"

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v${PROMETHEUS_VERSION}/prometheus-${PROMETHEUS_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xvf prometheus-${PROMETHEUS_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz

mv prometheus-${PROMETHEUS_VERSION}.linux-amd64/prometheus /usr/local/bin/
mv prometheus-${PROMETHEUS_VERSION}.linux-amd64/promtool /usr/local/bin/

mkdir -p /etc/prometheus /var/lib/prometheus
mv prometheus-${PROMETHEUS_VERSION}.linux-amd64/consoles /etc/prometheus/
mv prometheus-${PROMETHEUS_VERSION}.linux-amd64/console_libraries /etc/prometheus/

useradd --no-create-home --shell /bin/false prometheus
chown -R prometheus:prometheus /etc/prometheus /var/lib/prometheus

Prometheus configuration

bash

cat > /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml << 'EOF'
global:
  scrape_interval: 15s
  evaluation_interval: 15s

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: "prometheus"
    static_configs:
      - targets: ["localhost:9090"]

  - job_name: "node"
    static_configs:
      - targets: ["localhost:9100"]
        labels:
          instance: "my-vps"
          env: "production"
EOF

systemd service for Prometheus

bash

cat > /etc/systemd/system/prometheus.service << 'EOF'
[Unit]
Description=Prometheus
After=network.target

[Service]
User=prometheus
Group=prometheus
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/prometheus \
  --config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
  --storage.tsdb.path=/var/lib/prometheus \
  --storage.tsdb.retention.time=30d \
  --web.listen-address=":9090" \
  --web.enable-lifecycle
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now prometheus

Verify: curl http://localhost:9090/-/healthy

Install Grafana

bash

# Add Grafana repository
apt install -y apt-transport-https software-properties-common
wget -q -O - https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg] https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list

apt update
apt install -y grafana

systemctl enable --now grafana-server

Grafana is now available at http://SERVER_IP:3000.

Default login: admin / admin (change the password immediately on first access).

Secure access to Grafana

Grafana should not be exposed directly. Two options:

Option 1: SSH tunnel (local development)

bash

ssh -L 3000:localhost:3000 root@SERVER_IP
# Then visit http://localhost:3000

Option 2: Nginx reverse proxy with SSL

nginx

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name grafana.yourdomain.com;

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/grafana.yourdomain.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/grafana.yourdomain.com/privkey.pem;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    }
}

Add Prometheus as datasource in Grafana

Go to Connections → Data Sources → Add data source
Choose Prometheus
URL: http://localhost:9090
Click Save & Test

Ready-to-use dashboards

Import the official dashboard for node_exporter:

Other useful dashboards:

Dashboards → Import
ID: 1860 (Node Exporter Full: most complete)
Select the Prometheus datasource
Import
3662: Node Exporter (simpler)
14282: Prometheus 2.0 Stats
7362: cAdvisor (for Docker)

Useful PromQL queries

bash

# CPU usage %
100 - (avg by (instance) (rate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode="idle"}[5m])) * 100)

# Available RAM in GB
node_memory_MemAvailable_bytes / 1024^3

# Disk usage %
(1 - node_filesystem_avail_bytes{mountpoint="/"} / node_filesystem_size_bytes{mountpoint="/"}) * 100

# Network traffic in Mbps
rate(node_network_transmit_bytes_total{device="eth0"}[5m]) * 8 / 1024^2

# Load average 1m
node_load1

Alerting on Telegram

bash

# Create a Telegram bot: talk to @BotFather → /newbot
# Get the TOKEN and CHAT_ID

nano /etc/grafana/grafana.ini

ini

[alerting]
enabled = true

[unified_alerting]
enabled = true

In Grafana: Alerting → Contact points → Add contact point → Telegram

Enter the BOT_TOKEN and CHAT_ID. Then create alert rules on panels.

Monitor multiple servers

Add other servers to prometheus.yml:

yaml

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: "node"
    static_configs:
      - targets:
          - "localhost:9100"         # main server
          - "10.0.0.2:9100"          # secondary server (private network)
          - "1.2.3.4:9100"           # another VPS (expose only if protected)
        labels:
          env: "production"

If a server is not directly reachable from Prometheus (NAT, firewall), use Pushgateway: the server sends metrics instead of being scraped.

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