Saturday, November 29, 2025

Prometheus : Visualize on Grafana

 

Prometheus : Visualize on Grafana

 
Web UI is included in Prometheus but it's also possible to visualize time series data on Grafana.
[1]
Install Grafana, refer to here.
It's OK to install it on any Node. (install it on Prometheus server Node on this example)
[2]Access to Grafana Dashboard and Open [Configuration] - [Data Sources] on the left menu.
[3]Click [Add data source].
[4]Click [Prometheus].
[5]Input Prometheus Server endpoint URL on [URL] field and Click [Save & Test] button which is bottom of the page.
If you enabled authentication or HTTPS, set parameters for them, too.
[6]The message [Data source is working] is shown if that's OK.
[7]Next, Open [Dashboard] - [New dashboard] on the left menu.
[8]Click [Add a new panel].
[9]Select a query you'd like to visualize data on [Metrics] field.
[10]After selecting a query, visualized graph is shown. To save [Dashboard], Click [Save] button.
[11]Set any Dashboard name and Click [Save] button.
[12]To add more queries, it's possible to put more Graphs on a Dashboard.


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