VictoriaMetrics/deployment/docker

Docker compose environment for VictoriaMetrics

To spin-up VictoriaMetrics cluster, vmagent, vmalert, Alertmanager and Grafana run the following command:

docker-compose up

For single version check docker compose in master branch.

VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics cluster in this environment consists of vminsert, vmstorage and vmselect components. Only vmselect has exposed port :8481 and the rest of components are available only inside of environment. The communication scheme between components is the following:

• vmagent sends scraped metrics to vminsert;
• vminsert forwards data to vmstorage;
• vmselect is connected to vmstorage for querying data;
• grafana is configured with datasource pointing to vmselect;
• vmalert is configured to query vmselect and send alerts state and recording rules to vminsert;
• alertmanager is configured to receive notifications from vmalert.

vmagent

vmagent is used for scraping and pushing timeseries to VictoriaMetrics instance. It accepts Prometheus-compatible configuration prometheus.yml with listed targets for scraping.

Web interface link.

vmalert

vmalert evaluates alerting rules (alerts.yml) to track VictoriaMetrics health state. It is connected with AlertManager for firing alerts, and with VictoriaMetrics for executing queries and storing alert's state.

Web interface link.

alertmanager

AlertManager accepts notifications from vmalert and fires alerts. All notifications are blackholed according to alertmanager.yml config.

Web interface link.

Grafana

To access service open following link.

Default creds:

• login - admin
• password - admin

Grafana is provisioned by default with following entities:

• VictoriaMetrics datasource
• Prometheus datasource
• VictoriaMetrics overview dashboard