Quickstart for Thanos

Get up and running with Thanos, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, cAdvisor and node_exporter with a docker-compose.yaml file in less than 5 minutes.

Running the example

git clone https://github.com/dbluxo/quickstart-thanos
cd quickstart-thanos
docker-compose up -d

The following services will be installed (and some are accessible via browser):

Component	Description	URL
prometheus-1	Prometheus Server 1 (labels: cluster=chicago, replica=r1)	http://localhost:9081/
prometheus-2	Prometheus Server 2 (labels: cluster=chicago, replica=r2)	http://localhost:9082/
prometheus-3	Prometheus Server 3 (labels: cluster=seattle, replica=r1)	http://localhost:9083/
prometheus-4	Prometheus Server 4 (labels: cluster=seattle, replica=r2)	http://localhost:9084/
thanos-sidecar-1	Thanos Sidecar for Prometheus Server 1	not accessible via browser
thanos-sidecar-2	Thanos Sidecar for Prometheus Server 2	not accessible via browser
thanos-sidecar-3	Thanos Sidecar for Prometheus Server 3	not accessible via browser
thanos-sidecar-4	Thanos Sidecar for Prometheus Server 4	not accessible via browser
thanos-query-frontend	Thanos Query Frontend	http://localhost:10901/
thanos-querier	Thanos Querier	http://localhost:10902/
thanos-ruler	Thanos Ruler	http://localhost:10903/
thanos-bucket-web	Thanos Bucket Web	http://localhost:10904/
thanos-store-gateway	Thanos Store Gateway	not accessible via browser
thanos-compactor	Thanos Compactor	not accessible via browser
minio	Minio - Amazon S3 Compatible Object Storage	http://localhost:9000/
alertmanager	Alertmanager	http://localhost:9093/
grafana	Grafana	http://localhost:3000/
cadvisor	cAdvisor	http://localhost:8080/
node-exporter	node_exporter	http://localhost:9100/

Credentials

Grafana:

username - admin
password - foobar (Password is stored in the `/grafana/config monitoring` env file)

Minio:

Access Key - smth
Secret Key - Need8Chars (Keys are stored in the `docker-compose.yaml` file)

Explore metrics

• Explore metrics via Grafana http://localhost:3000/explore or the Thanos Query Frontend http://localhost:10901

Notes

This project is intended to be a quick-start to get up and running with Thanos. Security has not been implemented in this project. It is inspired by:

• https://github.com/vegasbrianc/prometheus (forked from this project)
• https://github.com/alexellis/quickstart-prometheus