Commit 2291b1bb authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch 'docs/external-prometheus-updates' into 'master'

Update external prometheus config

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!27439
parents 9ba30fc5 9bf740f7
......@@ -96,13 +96,15 @@ To use an external Prometheus server:
1. Set each bundled service's [exporter](#bundled-software-metrics) to listen on a network address, for example:
```ruby
```ruby
gitlab_monitor['listen_address'] = '0.0.0.0'
sidekiq['listen_address'] = '0.0.0.0'
gitlab_monitor['listen_port'] = '9168'
gitaly['prometheus_listen_addr'] = "0.0.0.0:9236"
node_exporter['listen_address'] = '0.0.0.0:9100'
redis_exporter['listen_address'] = '0.0.0.0:9121'
postgres_exporter['listen_address'] = '0.0.0.0:9187'
gitaly['prometheus_listen_addr'] = "0.0.0.0:9236"
gitlab_workhorse['prometheus_listen_addr'] = "0.0.0.0:9229"
```
1. Install and set up a dedicated Prometheus instance, if necessary, using the [official installation instructions](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/installation/).
......@@ -112,6 +114,18 @@ To use an external Prometheus server:
gitlab_rails['monitoring_whitelist'] = ['127.0.0.0/8', '192.168.0.1']
```
1. To scrape nginx metrics, you'll also need to configure nginx to allow the Prometheus server
IP. For example:
```ruby
nginx['status']['options'] = {
"server_tokens" => "off",
"access_log" => "off",
"allow" => "192.168.0.1",
"deny" => "all",
}
```
1. [Reconfigure GitLab][reconfigure] to apply the changes
1. Edit the Prometheus server's configuration file.
1. Add each node's exporters to the Prometheus server's
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