Grafana is a data visualizing platform, developed by Grafana Labs, which allows users to see their data via charts and graphs that are unified into one dashboard (or multiple dashboards!) for easier interpretation and understanding. Grafana dashboard consists of panels displaying data in beautiful graphs, charts, and other visualizations. These panels are created using components that transform raw data from a data source into visualizations.

Grafana is a multi-platform open-source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources.

A grafana is successfully installed and runs as a Windows Service automatically when the system boots. To Check its the status od the grafana service, Follow the steps below:

• 1) Open the Start menu and search for Services.
• 2) Select the Services result.
• 3) In the Services window, locate the grafana service. The Status column indicates whether the service is running or not. Start or stop the service using the buttons in the toolbar or by pressing Stop or Restart on the left side of the service list.
• 4) To run Grafana web interface, open your browser and go to the Grafana port (http://localhost:3000/). Please set Microsoft edge as your default browser first. For more details please refer the file (Usage Instructions) saved on the desktop of the machine.

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit mainly used for metrics monitoring, event monitoring, alert management. Prometheus has changed the way of monitoring systems and that is why it has become the Top-Level project of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Prometheus use multiple modes used for graphing and dashboarding support.

Prometheus's main features are:

• 1. A multi-dimensional data model with time series data identified by metric name and key/value pairs.
• 2. PromQL, a flexible query language to leverage this dimensionality.
• 3. No reliance on distributed storage; single server nodes are autonomous.
• 4. Time series collection happens via a pull model over HTTP.

To verify the prometheus installation is successful on the machine, please run the below commands in the command prompts:

• 1) prometheus --version : It shows installed version of the prometheus
• 2) prometheus --help : It shows extra commands related to prometheus
• 3) Now the prometheus is successfully installed, but to start the prometheus, open command prompt and locate to “Prometheus” root directory (i.e. cd C:\Program Files\prometheus-2.47.0.windows-amd64 ) use following start command and pass web listen address and config file default prometheus yml file as options. using following command: prometheus.exe --config.file prometheus.yml --web.listen-address ":9090" --storage.tsdb.path "data"
• 4) please keep runing this in the command prompt to access the web interface of prometheus.
• 5) Access “Prometheus” web interface with following URL and its running on 9090 port, http://localhost:9090/

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