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layout: "guides"
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page_title: "Setting up Nomad with Grafana and Prometheus Metrics"
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sidebar_current: "guides-nomad-metrics"
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description: |-
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It is possible to collect metrics on Nomad and create dashboards with Grafana
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and Prometheus. Nomad has default configurations for these, but it is
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possible to build and customize these.
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# Setting up Nomad with Grafana and Prometheus Metrics
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Often aggregating and displaying metrics in dashboards can lead to more useful
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insights about a cluster. It is easy to get lost in a sea of logs!
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This guide explains how to set up configuration for Prometheus and Grafana to
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integrate with a Nomad cluster. While this introduces the basics to get a
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dashboard up and running, Nomad exposes a wide vareity of metrics, which can be
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explored via both Grafana and Prometheus.
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## What are Prometheus and Grafana?
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Amongst other great metrics visualization tools, Prometheus and Grafana both
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aggregate data and provide an easy eay to visuqlize data.
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In addition to these tools, [Graphite](https://graphiteapp.org/) and
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[DataDog](https://www.datadoghq.com/) are also great tools to consider.
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## Setting up metrics
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Configurations for Grafana and Prometheus can be found in the
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[integrations](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/tree/master/integrations) subfolder.
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For Prometheus, first follow Prometheus's [Getting Started
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Guide](https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/getting_started/) in order to
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set up a Prometheus server. Next, use the (Nomad Prometheus
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Configuration)[https://github.com/hashicorp/tree/master/noamd/integrations/prometheus/prometheus.yml]
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in order to configure Prometheus to talk to a Consul agent to fetch information
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about the Nomad cluster. See the
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[README](https://github.com/hashicorp/tree/master/nomad/integrations/prometheus/README.md)
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for more information.
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For Grafana, follow Grafana's [Getting
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Started](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/getting_started/) guide to set up a
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running Grafana instance. Then, import the sample [Nomad
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Dashboard](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/tree/master/integrations/grafana/sample_dashboard.json)
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for an example Grafana dashboard. This dashboard requires a Prometheus data
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source to be configured, see the
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[README.md](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/tree/master/integrations/grafana/README.md)
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for more information.
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## Tagged Metrics
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As of version 0.7, Nomad will start emitting metrics in a tagged format. Each
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metrics can support more than one tag, meaning that it is possible to do a
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match over metrics for datapoints such as a particular datacenter, and return
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all metrics with this tag.
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See how [Grafana](http://docs.grafana.org/v3.1/reference/templating/) enables
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tagged metrics easily.
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