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Prometheus

Prometheus collects metrics from every service on Dankclaw by scraping their /metrics endpoints, and feeds Grafana once a datasource exists. node-exporter supplies host metrics from both machines.

Host: Dankclaw — Vhost: prometheus.franksdank.cloud (guarded: Anubis → Authentik; post-auth the Caddy vhost routes straight to prometheus:9090) — Port: 9090 (loopback) — Docs: https://prometheus.io/docs

Facts

Item Value
Image docker.io/prom/prometheus:latest
Published 127.0.0.1:9090 → 9090, loopback only (see Observability → Exposure)
Unit dankclaw/observability/quadlet/prometheus.container → prometheus.service
Config /opt/prometheus/config/prometheus.yml, installed from shared/prometheus/prometheus.yml on every deploy
Data /opt/prometheus/data (TSDB)
Retention --storage.tsdb.retention.time=30d
Alerting 5 alert rules + 1 recording rule (shared/prometheus/rules/llm-fleet.yml), evaluated and delivered since 2026-09-17: the alerting: block ships to alertmanager:9093 → Signal relay → signal-cli (see Alertmanager)

Targets

shared/prometheus/prometheus.yml is the source of truth; the deploy copies it into the container's /etc/prometheus/. In outline:

Job Target Why
prometheus localhost:9090 itself
node-dankclaw, node-dankserver 192.168.0.143:9100, 192.168.0.235:9100 host metrics from each machine's Node-Exporter
grafana, loki grafana:3000, loki:3100 container names on the dankclaw_default network; both serve real /metrics
frank-medium, frank-large 192.168.0.235:7770, 192.168.0.143:7770 the LLM fleet — vllm: and llamacpp: series (LAN addresses, not the guarded vhosts)

Three jobs read down, and they are not outages (audited 2026-09-16):

Job Target Why it never reports up
comfyui comfyui:8188 scrapes /, which is HTML — "unsupported Content-Type"
services 192.168.0.143:8081, :3005 same: up/down intent, implemented as a scrape
gitea 192.168.0.143:3000/metrics Gitea's exporter is off until [metrics] ENABLED = true

A scrape cannot express "is this HTTP service answering?" — that is what a probe is for, and the remedy is the blackbox exporter in probe mode (/probe?target=…&module=http_2xx), which also gives the guarded vhosts a real uptime signal since Prometheus cannot solve an Anubis challenge itself. Until it is deployed, these three stay red for a structural reason: deleting them would hide a real service, and fixing them by publishing databases or enabling metrics would trade a wrong signal for a real exposure. Targets are host:port, never URLs.

Volumes

Container path Host path
/etc/prometheus /opt/prometheus/config
/prometheus /opt/prometheus/data

Healthcheck

Prometheus responds on /-/healthy with 200; the unit's health command is the same wget --spider the deploy waits on.

Gotchas

  • Keep the node-exporter address in step with the unit. node-dankclaw scrapes 192.168.0.143:9100, which is exactly the LAN address node-exporter.container binds (Network=host, --web.listen-address twice). Change one without the other and host metrics stop with no error anywhere. The tests/observability_quadlet.bats seam pins the pairing.
  • The container name prometheus is what Caddy's post-auth handler proxies to, and grafana/loki are addressed by name here. Renaming a container breaks both silently.
  • Keep scrapes modest for a small homelab; too many targets bloat the TSDB.
  • Set a retention policy or the data volume grows without bound (30 days here).
  • The lifecycle endpoint is enabled (--web.enable-lifecycle), which is why this API must never be published beyond loopback.

See Also

  • Grafana — the dashboard frontend (datasource and LLM dashboard provisioned as code since 2026-09-16)
  • Node-Exporter — the host metrics source
  • Observability — the whole stack, including what is still unconfigured