Complete VM stack

README.md

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 # vmc-monitor
 Scrape basic metrics from a VM and containers running in it for monitoring
+
+## Update the following if you are using VictoriaMetrics
+### `docker-compose.yaml
+```yaml
+      - "--remoteWrite.url=<DEFINE_ME>"
+      - '--remoteWrite.basicAuth.password="<DEFINE_ME>"'
+      - '--remoteWrite.basicAuth.username="<DEFINE_ME"'
+```
+
+### `vmagent.yaml
+```yaml
+  external_labels: # add labels e.g.
+    machine_origin: my-machine
+    foo: bar
+```

docker-compose.yaml

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 version: '3.8'
 
-networks:
-  monitoring:
-    driver: bridge
-
 services:
   cadvisor:
     image: gcr.io/cadvisor/cadvisor:v0.47.0
     container_name: cadvisor
     restart: unless-stopped
     ports:
-      - 8080:8080
+      - "8080:8080"
     volumes:
       - /:/rootfs:ro
       - /var/run:/var/run:rw
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     image: victoriametrics/vmagent:v1.90.0
     restart: always
     ports:
-      - 8429:8429
+      - "8429:8429"
     volumes:
-      - <DEFINE_ME>:/vmagentdata
-      - ./vmagent.yaml.yml:/etc/prometheus/vmagent.yml
+      - ./vmagentdata:/vmagentdata
+      - ./vmagent.yaml:/etc/prometheus/vmagent.yaml
     command:
-      - "--promscrape.config=/etc/prometheus/vmagent.yml"
-      - "--remoteWrite.url=<DEFINE ME>"
-
-
-
+      - "--promscrape.config=/etc/prometheus/vmagent.yaml"
+      - "--remoteWrite.url=<DEFINE_ME>"
+      - '--remoteWrite.basicAuth.password="<DEFINE_ME>"'
+      - '--remoteWrite.basicAuth.username="<DEFINE_ME>"'

vmagent.yaml

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 global:
-  scrape_interval: 10s
-
+  scrape_interval: 15s
 scrape_configs:
   - job_name: 'vmagent'
     static_configs:
       - targets: ['vmagent:8429']
   - job_name: 'cadvisor'
     static_configs:
-      - targets: ['cadvisor:8880']
+      - targets: ['cadvisor:8080']
   - job_name: 'node-exporter'
     static_configs:
       - targets: ['node-exporter:9100']