Jenkins monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Eric Anicet
6 min readSep 30, 2024

In this story, we’ll explain how to configure Prometheus and Grafana to monitor the Jenkins CI-CD instance.

· Prerequisites
· Overview
What is Prometheus?
What is Grafana Open Source?
Why is it important to monitor Jenkins?
· Set Up Jenkins
Install the Prometheus Plugin for Jenkins
Configure Jenkins for Prometheus metrics
· Set Up Prometheus and Grafana
Set Up Prometheus
Configure Grafana datasources
· Visualizing
Explore Prometheus
Explore Grafana
Grafana Alerts
· Conclusion
· References

Prerequisites

This is the list of all the prerequisites:

  • An installed Jenkins server
  • Docker / Docker compose installed (optional if you’ve already installed Prometheus and Grafana)
  • Basic knowledge of Prometheus and Grafana

Overview

What is Prometheus?

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