Micro tutorial how to up a Prometheus Docker container

commands

sudo mkdir -p /docker/prometheus


docker run -d -p 9090:9090 \
  --name prometheus \
  -v /docker/prometheus/prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
  prom/prometheus
  
  
docker stop prometheus
docker start prometheus
docker logs -f prometheus

prometheus.yml

global:
  scrape_interval: 10s
  evaluation_interval: 10s

alerting:
  alertmanagers:
  - static_configs:
    - targets:
    # - alertmanager: 9093

rule_files:
  # - "first_rules.yml"
  # - "second_rules.yml" 

scrape_configs:
  job_name: 'prometheus'
  # metrics_path defaults to 'metrics'
  # scheme defaults to 'http'
    static_configs:
    - targets: ['172.17.0.1:9090']
  job_name: 'web'
    static_configs:
    - targets:['172.17.0.1:2112'] # suponds if your applications running in localhost with 2112 port and your metrics endpoit is http://localhost:2112/metrics