attempt to run promtheus locally

docker commands to run:

docker build -t prom .

docker run --name promdan -p 9090:9090 -t prom

Dockerfile

FROM        sdurrheimer/alpine-glibc
MAINTAINER  The Prometheus Authors <prometheus-developers@googlegroups.com>

WORKDIR /gopath/src/github.com/prometheus/prometheus
COPY    . /gopath/src/github.com/prometheus/prometheus

RUN apk add --update -t build-deps tar openssl git make bash curl\
    && source ./scripts/goenv.sh /go /gopath \
    && make build \
    && cp prometheus promtool /bin/ \
    && mkdir -p /etc/prometheus \
    && mv ./documentation/examples/prometheus.yml /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
    && mv ./console_libraries/ ./consoles/ /etc/prometheus/ \
    && apk del --purge build-deps \
    && rm -rf /go /gopath /var/cache/apk/*

EXPOSE     9090
VOLUME     [ "/prometheus" ]
WORKDIR    /prometheus
ENTRYPOINT [ "/bin/prometheus" ]
CMD        [ "-config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml", \
             "-storage.local.path=/prometheus", \
             "-web.console.libraries=/etc/prometheus/console_libraries", \
             "-web.console.templates=/etc/prometheus/consoles" ]

results

results:

curl localhost:9090/mterics
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9090: Connection refused

docker exec -ti <container_id> /bin/sh

apk update
apk add curl
curl localhost:9090/metrics
# HELP go_gc_duration_seconds A summary of the GC invocation durations.
# TYPE go_gc_duration_seconds summary
go_gc_duration_seconds{quantile="0"} 8.8718e-05
go_gc_duration_seconds{quantile="0.25"} 0.000186132
go_gc_duration_seconds{quantile="0.5"} 0.00034569600000000005
go_gc_duration_seconds{quantile="0.75"} 0.0017787200000000001
go_gc_duration_seconds{quantile="1"} 0.002445067
go_gc_duration_seconds_sum 0.014817347000000002
go_gc_duration_seconds_count 17
# HELP go_goroutines Number of goroutines that currently exist.
# TYPE go_goroutines gauge
go_goroutines 112
# HELP http_request_duration_microseconds The HTTP request latencies in microseconds.
# TYPE http_request_duration_microseconds summary
http_request_duration_microseconds{handler="alerts",quantile="0.5"} NaN