Monitor your applications easily with Grafana and Prometheus

1. What is Prometheus & Grafana? Prometheus is a monitoring system which collects metrics from applications easily. Grafana is a user-friendly visualization project which transforms the metrics collected before into amazing charts. In this article, you will learn how to connect prometheus to grafana using a docker compose file. 2. Requirements Install docker Install docker compose Golang >= 1.08 3. Create your application If you want to get metrics from your application, the first step is to add prometheus to your application code.