Ever since I stumbled on Grafana and Prometheus several months ago while looking at creating a comprehensive smart home dashboard, I’ve always wanted to set one up.
After a friend introduced me to Stable Diffusion a few weeks ago, I wanted to be able to run generation from anywhere, so I got my instance of Stable set up with AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui: Stable Diffusion web UI (github.com) by following How to Run Stable Diffusion Locally with a GUI on Windows (howtogeek.com).
This was all well and good, and I can now create AI art from anywhere, but I wanted to be able to see my system’s performance stats as well, so I started looking up webui’s for monitoring and stumbled across Grafana again.
Let’s get this going. Note: This does not follow any best practices, so reader beware. #musicfueledlatenightcomputeradventures
Exporter Installation and Configuration
Step 1 – Download and Install Windows_Exporter
Download the latest release of windows_exporter Releases · prometheus-community/windows_exporter (github.com)
As of writing: windows_exporter-0.20.0-amd64.msi
Unzip and move this file to an easy to access path such as C:\Monitoring\
Open up cmd or PowerShell as admin.
cd to the directory housing your msi file and install using msiexec as demonstrated:
> cd C:\Monitoring > msiexec /i windows_exporter-0.20.0-amd64.msi --LISTEN_ADDR=127.0.0.1 --LISTEN_PORT=9182
This will install windows_exporter as a Windows service, so you will not need to worry about starting it or creating a task in Task Scheduler.
To verify it is working, open a new tab and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:9182/metrics
Step 2 – Download and Install OhmGraphite
Download the latest release of OhmGraphite Releases · nickbabcock/OhmGraphite (github.com)
As of writing: OhmGraphite-0.27.0.zip
Unzip and move this file to an easy to access path such as C:\Monitoring\
Edit the OhmGraphite.exe.config file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="type" value="prometheus" />
<add key="prometheus_port" value="4445" />
<!-- This is the host that OhmGraphite listens on.
`*` means that it will listen on all interfaces.
Consider restricting to a given IP address -->
<add key="prometheus_host" value="127.0.0.1" />
</appSettings>
</configuration>
Open cmd or PowerShell as admin and cd to the folder housing OhmGraphite:
> cd C:\Monitoring\OhmGraphite > .\OhmGraphite.exe install > .\OhmGraphite.exe start
To verify it is working, open a new tab and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:4445/metrics
Prometheus – Installation and Configuration
Step 1 – Download and Installation
Download the latest release of Prometheus Releases · prometheus/prometheus (github.com)
As of writing: prometheus-2.40.0.windows-amd64.zip
Extract the contents with your preferred unzipping application and choose an easily accessible path such as C:\Monitoring\ and if desired, rename the folder to just prometheus-2.40.0.
Next, open up the default YAML config file, prometheus.yml, we will add scraper targets to this file.
# my global config
global:
scrape_interval: 15s # Set the scrape interval to every 15 seconds. Default is every 1 minute.
evaluation_interval: 15s # Evaluate rules every 15 seconds. The default is every 1 minute.
# scrape_timeout is set to the global default (10s).
# Alertmanager configuration
#alerting:
#alertmanagers:
# - static_configs:
# - targets:
# - alertmanager:9093
# Load rules once and periodically evaluate them according to the global 'evaluation_interval'.
rule_files:
# - "first_rules.yml"
# - "second_rules.yml"
# A scrape configuration containing exactly one endpoint to scrape:
# Here it's Prometheus itself.
scrape_configs:
- job_name: 'fractal'
metrics_path: '/metrics'
# scheme defaults to 'http'.
static_configs:
- targets: ['127.0.0.1:9182', '127.0.0.1:4445']
Open cmd or PowerShell as admin and cd to the folder housing Prometheus and start Prometheus with the config file specified:
> cd C:\Monitoring\prometheus-2.40.0 > .\prometheus.exe --config.file="prometheus.yml"
As long as you don’t see any funky errors like the following, you should be able to access Prometheus at http://localhost:9090 to test queries.
ts=2022-11-08T04:00:07.855Z caller=main.go:468 level=error msg="Error loading config (--config.file=prometheus.yml)" file=C:\Monitoring\prometheus-2.40.0\prometheus.yml err="parsing YAML file prometheus.yml: yaml: line 28: did not find expected key"
Test it out by entering cpu into the search bar, then picking a query from the dropdown and pressing enter again.
The instance and job fields as seen above are pulled from the prometheus.yml configuration file.
Grafana Setup
Step 1 – Download and Install
Head on over to Grafana get started | Cloud, Self-managed, Enterprise. Click Download and then choose your OS (Windows for this tutorial).
Download Grafana | Grafana Labs
Run the installer.
Step 2 – Configure Grafana
Once Grafana is installed, open up your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000 to complete first-time setup.
Step 3 – Import Dashboard
At this point, you can choose to create a new dashboard from scratch or do what I did and use an existing dashboard to learn how to make the queries work once the exporters are set up.
Manage dashboards | Grafana documentation
Learn Version: Windows Desktop Overview | Grafana Labs
TLDR Version: Stable Diffusion Monitor-1667965231420.json
As long as all this works, you should be able to use the TLDR dashboard out of the box.
I recommend creating a few panels from scratch just to learn the Grafana interface.
That’s all she wrote, folks!
