localhost:9090 is what you'd enter if prometheus was running on the same machine as your browser.
In this case it's remote, so enter <IP-address>:9090 where <IP-address> is the IP-address of the server where prometheus is running. On Monday 19 February 2024 at 07:13:02 UTC Leah Stapleton wrote: > Hello, > This is my first time using Prometheus. I found it very easy to set up the > server but I'm puzzled about viewing the data. > > I have a prometheus server running on a VPN at Digital Ocean, which is set > up to scrape data from Caddy webserver. > > But how do I view the dashboards? > > I know there's a prometheus ui that I can use at localhost:9090, but I > don't know how to set that up to view the data on a prometheus server > running on a vpn.I can't just open localhost:9090 on my browser and see > data from a remote server, there must be some step I am missing. > > Can anyone give me detailed step by step instructions? > 1.Do I need to add anything to the prometheus.yml file? if so, what? > 2. what command do I run in the terminal of my computer to get the > prometheus ui going? > > Thank you for your help. > > By the way, I've heard Grafana is also a possibility but I'm interested in > trying the Prometheus Ui instead. Thank you. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/4a64826e-e3c0-42ce-8923-88b59f39f64fn%40googlegroups.com.
