Grafana and Prometheus

This guide will walk you through setting up a local metrics infrastructure using Grafana and Prometheus.

Step 1: Set up Grafana and Prometheus

To simplify the process, we will use the metrics-infrastructure repository, which contains the necessary configuration files to run Grafana and Prometheus in a Docker container. However, you can also set up Grafana and Prometheus manually the way it fits your specific needs.

git clone https://github.com/NethermindEth/metrics-infrastructure.git

Step 2: Run the stack

After cloning the repository, navigate to its root directory and run the containers using Docker Compose as follows:

docker compose up

Once the stack is running, you can access the following services:

• Grafana: localhost:3000
  Use admin for both the username and password. When asked for a password change, you may skip it. Then, navigate to Dashboards > Nethermind Dashboard.
• Prometheus: localhost:9090
• Pushgateway: localhost:9091
  To specify another endpoint for the Pushgateway, use the Metrics.PushGatewayUrl configuration option.

Step 3: Run Nethermind

To enable metrics in Nethermind, set the Metrics.Enabled configuration option to true. For more options, see the Metrics configuration section.

tip

See Running a node for more information on how to run Nethermind.

Run Nethermind as follows:

nethermind \
  -c mainnet \
  -dd path/to/data/dir \
  --Metrics.Enabled true \
  --Metrics.PushGatewayUrl http://localhost:9091

Alternatively, you may add the nethermind service to the docker-compose.yml file in the repository root to run everything altogether:

docker-compose.yml

nethermind:
  image: nethermind/nethermind:latest
  container_name: nethermind
  restart: unless-stopped
  links:
    - pushgateway
  depends_on:
    - pushgateway
  ports:
    - 8545:8545
    - 8551:8551
    - 30303:30303
  ulimits:
    nofile:
      soft: 1000000
      hard: 1000000
  command: -c mainnet --Metrics.Enabled true --Metrics.PushGatewayUrl http://pushgateway:9091
  volumes:
    - ./keystore:/nethermind/keystore
    - ./logs:/nethermind/logs
    - ./nethermind_db:/nethermind/nethermind_db
  networks:
    - metrics

In this case, you may want to configure your consensus client similarly.