Grafana CE with Prometheus on Ubuntu 24.04

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grafana community edition dashboards on a prometheus metrics server, ready to show live host metrics from first boot.

Base
Hardened build
minimal ports, security patches applied at build time
Access
Unique credentials
generated on first boot, readable only by root
Verified
Boots working
services pass a health gate before release
Support
24/7, 365 days
by email and live chat, 24 hour response SLA

Overview

This is a ready to use monitoring appliance that combines grafana community edition with a prometheus metrics server and a node exporter agent. Prometheus scrapes host metrics, grafana visualises them, and a starter dashboard plus a preconfigured datasource are in place from first boot so live metrics appear without any setup. It suits teams that want an out of the box observability stack for a server or small fleet.

Why the cloudimg image

cloudimg ships the stack hardened and fully patched, secure by default: the metrics server and exporter bind to loopback only rather than being exposed, and a unique grafana administrator password and secret key are generated on the first boot of every instance with no default login surviving into the image. Every deployment is paired with a step by step guide and backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.

Common uses

  • Out of the box host monitoring
  • Metrics dashboards and alerting
  • Observability for a small fleet

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.

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