What is Promgen?

Promgen is a configuration file generator for Prometheus. Promgen is a web application written with Django and can help you do the following jobs.

• Create and manage Prometheus configuration files
• Configure alert rules and notification options

See the Promgen introduction slides for more details.

Promgen screenshots

Getting started

Below are the steps to get started with Promgen.

1. Initialize Promgen

Initialize Promgen using Docker.

# Create promgen setting directory.
mkdir -p ~/.config/promgen
chmod 777 ~/.config/promgen

# Initialize required settings with Docker container
# This will prompt you for connection settings for your database and Redis broker
# using the standard DSN syntax.
# Database example: mysql://password:username@hostname/databasename
# Broker example: redis://localhost:6379/0
docker run --rm -it -v ~/.config/promgen:/etc/promgen/ line/promgen:master bootstrap

# Apply database updates
docker run --rm -v ~/.config/promgen:/etc/promgen/ line/promgen:master migrate

# Create initial login user. This is the same as the default django-admin command
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/django-admin/#django-admin-createsuperuser
docker run --rm -it -v ~/.config/promgen:/etc/promgen/ line/promgen:master createsuperuser

You can then use your favorite configuration management system to deploy to each worker.

Note: Promgen aims to use the XDG specs and follows suggestions made by the 12-Factor App.

2. Configure Prometheus

Configure Prometheus to load the target file from Prometheus and configure AlertManager to send notifications back to Promgen.

See the example settings files for proper configuration of Prometheus and AlertManager.

• Example settings file
• Example Prometheus file
• Example AlertManager file

3. Run Promgen

Run Promgen using the following command.

# Run Promgen web worker. This is typically balanced behind an NGINX instance
docker run --rm -p 8000:8000 -v ~/.config/promgen:/etc/promgen/ line/promgen:master

# Run Promgen celery worker. Make sure to run it on the same machine as your Prometheus server to manage the config settings
docker run --rm -v ~/.config/promgen:/etc/promgen/ -v /etc/prometheus:/etc/prometheus line/promgen:master worker

How to contribute to Promgen

First of all, thank you so much for taking your time to contribute! We always welcome your ideas and feedback. Please feel free to make any pull requests.

• File an issue in the issue tracker to report bugs and propose new features and improvements.
• Ask a question using the issue tracker.
• Contribute your work by sending a pull request.

Setting up Promgen for development

You can install Promgen for a development environment as follows.

virtualenv --python=/path/to/python3 /path/to/virtualenv
source /path/to/virtualenv/activate
pip install -e .[dev]
pip install mysqlclient # psycopg or another database driver
# Setup database and update tables
promgen migrate
# Run tests
promgen test
# Run development server
promgen runserver

Note: Promgen strives to be a standard Django application. Make sure to apply standard Django development patterns.

Contributor license agreement

If you are sending a pull request and it's a non-trivial change beyond fixing typos, please make sure to sign the ICLA(individual contributor license agreement). Please contact us if you need the CCLA (corporate contributor license agreement).

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