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Prometheus installation

Prometheus installation - Prometheus Tutorial

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Prometheus installation

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- [Instructor] Welcome. In this video, you will learn how to install Prometheus. We will discuss the several options along with some examples. This will be relevant for the practicals later in the course and serve as a foundation for your success. Prometheus has pre-compiled binaries for most components such as Prometheus itself, alert manager, and the various exporters. You can build Prometheus from source, using Docker, or using a configuration management system such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppets. Now let's explore the various ways to install Prometheus. The first way to install Prometheus is to download a pre-compiled binary and run it. We can find this in the releases page of the GitHub repository. Now, I will first copy the URL to the binary for my OS distribution, which is Mac Os Darwin. I will then navigate to my terminal where I can create a file to reference for the Prometheus configuration. We'll create an empty file called prometheus.yml. Next, I will download the file using…

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