You might also need to adjust the firewall at Digital Ocean to allow your browser to connect to Prometheus.
No additional set-up is needed to get the UI; Prometheus serves it over http by default. Bryan On Monday 19 February 2024 at 07:39:24 UTC Brian Candler wrote: > localhost:9090 is what you'd enter if prometheus was running on the same > machine as your browser. > > In this case it's remote, so enter > <IP-address>:9090 > where <IP-address> is the IP-address of the server where prometheus is > running. > > On Monday 19 February 2024 at 07:13:02 UTC Leah Stapleton wrote: > >> Hello, >> This is my first time using Prometheus. I found it very easy to set up >> the server but I'm puzzled about viewing the data. >> >> I have a prometheus server running on a VPN at Digital Ocean, which is >> set up to scrape data from Caddy webserver. >> >> But how do I view the dashboards? >> >> I know there's a prometheus ui that I can use at localhost:9090, but I >> don't know how to set that up to view the data on a prometheus server >> running on a vpn.I can't just open localhost:9090 on my browser and see >> data from a remote server, there must be some step I am missing. >> >> Can anyone give me detailed step by step instructions? >> 1.Do I need to add anything to the prometheus.yml file? if so, what? >> 2. what command do I run in the terminal of my computer to get the >> prometheus ui going? >> >> Thank you for your help. >> >> By the way, I've heard Grafana is also a possibility but I'm interested >> in trying the Prometheus Ui instead. Thank you. >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to prometheus-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/b3b6071e-38ea-4bc9-bc7c-ecc7292032e4n%40googlegroups.com.
