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The TICK stack is an app stack that contains containers that can collect, monitor, and visualize monitoring data in a time series database. We are going to look at server monitoring with a TICK stack and Grafana and see how you can install, configure, and start monitoring your environment. Write up of TICK Stack with Docker compose example here: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2024/05/tick-stack-with-docker-compose-example/ VMware monitoring with TICK stack: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2024/05/vmware-monitoring-for-free-with-telegraf-influxdb-and-grafana/ Github page for telegraf config for VMware monitoring: https://www.influxdata.com/integration/vmware-vsphere/ Check out the VHT forums to get your questions answered: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/ ★ Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 ★ My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com ★ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster ★ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ ★ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit ★ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/VirtualizationHowto/100092747277326/ ★ Discord: https://discord.gg/Zb46NV6mB3 ★ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/brandonleevht/ Introduction to a TICK stack - 0:00 What is a TICK stack? 0:32 What each component of the TICK stack does - 1:06 Overview of setting up via Docker Compose - 2:06 What you will need - 2:29 Looking at the Docker host - 3:00 How I organize folders - 3:40 Looking at the Docker Compose code - 4:09 Looking at Telegraf and Kapacitor config files - 4:36 Creating the Docker Compose YAML code - 5:15 Telegraf config - 6:10 Looking at the Kapacitor config file - 6:44 Bringing up the TICK stack with docker-compose up - 7:47 Status of containers, Kapacitor in exit state - 8:06 Setting up InfluxDB with setup wizard - 9:14 Copying the API token for InfluxDB connectivity - 10:08 Editing the telegraf configuration file for InfluxDB connectivity - 10:28 Editing the Kapacitor configuration file - 11:42 Stopping and starting Kapacitor and Telegraf container - 12:09 Running another Docker Compose up - 2:20 Looking at container status - 12:35 Overview of adding Grafana to the stack - 13:00 Looking at the directory structure again - 13:33 Adding the grafana configuration in Docker Compose - 14:05 Running another Docker Compose up after adding grafana - 14:40 Overview of adding an example of monitoring VMware using TICK stack - 15:08 Looking at the additional telegraf configuration for adding input for VMware - 15:42 Pasting the additional configuration in telegraf to monitor VMware - 16:50 Stopping, removing, and starting the telegraf container - 17:45 Verifying you are getting data from telegraf into InfluxDB - 18:03 Setting up connection to InfluxDB in Grafana - 18:40 Looking at connection properties for InfluxDB in Grafana - 18:56 Loading dasbhoards in Grafana - 19:36 Getting to the community dashboards for Grafana - 20:08 Getting the ID for a Grafana dashboard - 20:42 Talking about monitoring other solutions - 21:13 Monitoring a personal weather station with TICK stack - 21:39 Wrapping up open source monitoring solutions - 21:54