Jenkins monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

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?