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Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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Installing the Prometheus server

Our first task is to get a Prometheus server up and running so that we can start serving real data. Prometheus is a powerful open source time-series database and monitoring system originally developed by SoundCloud. It followed Kubernetes to become the second Cloud Native Computing Foundation graduating incubation project. Grafana, having partnered with the maintainers of Prometheus, includes the Prometheus data source as a first-class data source plugin. In this section, we will learn how to install Prometheus in a Docker container and then move on to configuring it.

Installing Prometheus from Docker

We’re going to start up Prometheus from Docker Compose and point it to a local configuration file. First, let’s create the following configuration file and save it to our local ch4/prometheus directory as prometheus.yml:

global:
    scrape_interval:      15s # By default, scrape targets...
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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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