You might also need to adjust the firewall at Digital Ocean to allow your browser to connect to Prometheus.
No additional set-up is needed to get the UI; Prometheus serves it over http by default. Bryan On Monday 19 February 2024 at 07:39:24 UTC Brian Candler wrote: > 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/b3b6071e-38ea-4bc9-bc7c-ecc7292032e4n%40googlegroups.com.
