With all the tools you have in production, it’s important that you can effortlessly test the user flows end-to-end, locally. The rationale behind such is the reduced feedback cycle that saves a developer a lot of time to achieve the desired outcome.

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I was working on sending some telemetry data from my Golang web application to Prometheus, and then creating a Grafana dashboard out of it. But to test the flow, I needed a local setup of Prometheus + Grafana to check if the metrics were correct, and that I was building the right PromQL query to create the dashboard.

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I am maintaining a Github repo for all the docker-compose setups I require for my local testing, with Prometheus + Grafana being a new addition to it. If you need a similar setup, refer to this post or my [Github Repository](https://github.com/ninadingole/docker-images) and save your setup time to focus more on building things.

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Clone the repo: `https://github.com/ninadingole/docker-images`

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Then go to `prometheus-grafana` folder and run `docker-compose up -d`.

This will start Prometheus on `http://localhost:9090` and Grafana on `http://localhost:3000`.

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 ![Prometheus running on localhost:9090](https://cdn.hackernoon.com/images/HLrsBayFqhcB1EmVxXEK9dpIzRv2-2023-02-07T05:56:57.086Z-cldttxpjp00000as6dxge7wz1)

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There is also a `prometheus.yml`, the configuration file which you can use to add the local apps that you want to scrape.

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**Note**: if your application is running inside a docker, then use `host.docker.internal` as your hostname with the port to scrape the target.

```yaml
global:
  scrape_interval:     15s
  evaluation_interval: 15s

rule_files:
  # - "first.rules"
  # - "second.rules"

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: prometheus
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:9090']
  - job_name: app
    scrape_interval: 5s
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['host.docker.internal:10088']
```

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 ![Grafana settings to connect to local Prometheus](https://cdn.hackernoon.com/images/HLrsBayFqhcB1EmVxXEK9dpIzRv2-2023-02-07T05:56:57.142Z-cldttxpkm00010as62j509cd6)

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Once you have added the configs to connect Grafana to Prometheus like the image above, you are ready with an end-to-end setup on your local.

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If you also have your own docker-compose stack setups that you use during your development, please don't hesitate to share with me by sending me a PR to the repository.


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Thanks and Happy Coding!

### Reference

* [github](https://github.com/ninadingole/docker-images)

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