Steps to run Prometheus and Grafana on Azure

Setup on Azure Windows 2019 server

Install Chrome using this command on powershell:

$LocalTempDir = $env:TEMP; $ChromeInstaller = "ChromeInstaller.exe"; (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/375.126/chrome_installer.exe', "$LocalTempDir$ChromeInstaller"); & "$LocalTempDir$ChromeInstaller" /silent /install; $Process2Monitor = "ChromeInstaller"; Do { $ProcessesFound = Get-Process | ?{$Process2Monitor -contains $_.Name} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name; If ($ProcessesFound) { "Still running: $($ProcessesFound -join ', ')" | Write-Host; Start-Sleep -Seconds 2 } else { rm "$LocalTempDir$ChromeInstaller" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Verbose } } Until (!$ProcessesFound)

Install prometheus

Download it from https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v2.34.0/prometheus-2.34.0.windows-amd64.zip
Alter the contents of the prometheus.yml file after extraction.

Download and install grok exporter

Alter contents of patterns/custom-logs , example/config.yml Add the log-server directory and the server.log file Also alter contents of the config file to change input path to this server.log file.

Start the prometheus server and the grok server and grafana

prometheus.exe grok_exporter.exe -config example\config.yml nssm start grafana

Start the server and client

python server.py python client.py after conda activate sml