1. docker & docker compose must be available in the $PATH (alternatively podman and podman-compose can be used)
2. Port 3000 for grafana has to be free.
3. Port 3100 for loki has to be free.
4. Variables set in .env file must be correct and all configured ports must be free. Sample configuration file is provided as .env.example.

To run the monitored node stack, use the provided Docker compose file. See the compose file for details on the node configuration.

$ sudo docker compose up --build --force-recreate -d
# or
$ podman-compose up --build --force-recreate -d

This will create a grafana container which is preloaded with loki data source and dashboards which render metrics collected by the prometheus container from the forest container. The time series database managed by Prometheus will persist data to volume monitoring_prometheus_data.

Once the metrics stack is running, open up the grafana webapp to view the predefined dashboards. Use the default Grafana credentials: admin/admin.

A sample dashboard is available at Dashboards > Forest. Loki metrics are available under Drilldown > Logs in the Grafana UI.