Creating a Prometheus instance

This guide covers the deployment of a self-hosted Prometheus service.

To proceed, make sure you have an account in Cleura Cloud, and you are logged in to the Cleura Cloud Management Panel.

Step-by-step deployment

In the left vertical pane of the Cleura Cloud Management Panel, expand the Marketplace category and click on Discover Apps and Services. In the central pane, you will see all available applications and services. Locate the Prometheus box and click the green View button.

You will see the Prometheus information page, where you can learn more about its features, and obtain pricing information. Click the orange Deploy this App button to start the deployment process.

The Prometheus application is hosted on a Nova VM, so now you may select a region, a name, a flavor, a public network, a keypair, and a security group for it. Regarding the security group, make sure it includes a rule allowing incoming TCP connections to port 9090.

Read and agree to the Terms and Conditions. When you are ready, click the green Create button.

The deployment takes some minutes to complete. To check how it is going, expand the Marketplace category in the vertical pane on the left and click Provisioned Apps. In the central pane, watch the Prometheus Heat stack row. The animated icon at the left marks the deployment progress.

When the deployment is complete, you will see a white check mark in a green circle.

Logging into the Prometheus dashboard

You need your deployment’s URL. For that, make sure you are in the Provisioned Apps pane. Click on the Prometheus row to expand it, and select the Stack Output tab.

Click the icon at the right of the prometheus_url row. A pop-up window appears. Click the blue Copy Output! button to copy the URL into the clipboard.

Using your favorite web browser, navigate to your Prometheus deployment’s URL. The Prometheus page appears.

We recommend you start with the official Getting Started page to learn how to use your new monitoring service.