Grafana Tutorials: Display Jenkins Build Status on Grafana using prometheus?

Step – 1: Install Grafana server

Step – 2: Install Jenkins Server

Step – 3: Install prometheus Server?

Jenkins Prometheus Plugin expose an endpoint (default /prometheus) with metrics where a Prometheus Server can scrape.

• https://www.devopsschool.com/blog/install-and-configure-prometheus-server-and-node-exporter-in-rhel/

Step – 4: Install jenkins plugins “Prometheus metrics”

Step – 5: Restart jenkins

Step – 6: Review Prometheus config at http://192.168.1.9:8080/configure but do not change

Step – 7: Validate all the jenkins metrics at http://192.168.1.9:8080/prometheus

Step – 8: Configure Prometheus for scrapping http://192.168.1.9:8080/prometheus

• Edit prometheus.yaml
• add follwing stanza

scrape_configs:
  # The job name is added as a label `job=<job_name>` to any timeseries scraped from thi
s config.
  - job_name: "prometheus"

    # metrics_path defaults to '/metrics'
    # scheme defaults to 'http'.

    static_configs:
      - targets: ["localhost:9090"]
  - job_name: jenkins
    metrics_path: '/prometheus'
    static_configs:
    - targets: ['192.168.1.9:8080']
Code language: PHP (php)

Step – 8: Validate prometheus.yml file

$ ./promtool check config prometheus.yml

Step – 9: Restart prometheus services

Step – 10: Validate prometheus jenkins target at http://192.168.1.2:9090/targets?search=

Step – 11: Wait for 1 mins.

Step – 12: Vaidate all jenkins metrics at http://192.168.1.2:9090/graph using search

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