Monitoring Setup

Guide: Monitoring Setup

ɳSelf’s monitoring stack provides metrics, logs, and alerting for your entire backend.

Install the Monitoring Plugin

nself plugin install monitoring
nself build && nself restart

This adds 10 services to your stack:

Service	Purpose
Prometheus	Metrics collection and storage
Grafana	Metrics dashboards
Loki	Log aggregation
Promtail	Log shipping agent
Tempo	Distributed tracing
Alertmanager	Alert routing and notifications
cAdvisor	Container resource metrics
Node Exporter	Host OS metrics
Postgres Exporter	Database metrics
Redis Exporter	Redis metrics (if Redis enabled)

Access Grafana

nself urls    # shows Grafana URL and default credentials

Default credentials are in .env as GRAFANA_USER / GRAFANA_PASSWORD. Change them immediately.

Pre-Built Dashboards

Grafana comes pre-loaded with dashboards for:

• Container metrics: CPU, memory, network per container (cAdvisor)
• Host metrics: disk, CPU, memory, load (Node Exporter)
• PostgreSQL: connections, query rates, cache hit ratio (Postgres Exporter)
• Nginx: request rates, error rates, response times

Log Aggregation with Loki

All container logs are shipped to Loki via Promtail. Query logs in Grafana using LogQL:

{container="myproject_hasura_1"} |= "error"

Setting Up Alerts

Edit monitoring/alertmanager/config.yml to configure notification channels:

receivers:
  - name: 'slack'
    slack_configs:
      - api_url: 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/...'
        channel: '#alerts'

Pre-built alert rules cover:

• Container down
• High CPU / memory usage
• Postgres connection exhaustion
• Disk space low

See Also

• Guide-Production-Deployment: initial server setup
• plugin-monitoring: monitoring plugin reference
• Feature-Monitoring: monitoring feature overview

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