Monitoring HQ

This repository contains documentation and baseline setup of a Prometheus + Grafana service which is intended to serve as a centralized monitoring and alerting component of the Prior Art Archive.

The repository is driven by docker and involves the following:

1. An instance of prometheus which handles the collection of metrics.
2. (SOON) An instance of grafana which handles the rendering of metrics.
3. (SOON) An instance of alertmanager which triggers alerts based on metric outcomes.

Setup

We're using Docker and docker-compose which will let you set up your own Prometheus server to make improvements and modifications to this repository.

To run the project locally:

docker-compose up

Building and Deploying

The project is run on [AWS ECS], which means in order to actually deploy you will need to install the ecs-cli.

You will also need read access to the following services:

1. Our Docker organization: priorartarchive
2. An AWS account with permission to interact with ECS

Once you've done that, this is how you would deploy a new version:

> docker-compose build
> docker-compose push
> ecs-cli compose service down --cluster prior-art-archive-monitoring
> ecs-cli compose service up --cluster prior-art-archive-monitoring

Note that prior-art-archive-monitoring can be whatever name you have set up.