Application Monitoring with Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana

Lately I’ve been interested in how to setup application monitoring. With Docker, it should be pretty straight forward to setup tools like Prometheus and Grafana, so I set out to see how simple it would be to wire up my little typescript chat application in Docker with some application monitoring. This means I had to update my typescript server and client code to work inside a Docker container, add some docker files to build the images, and make a docker compose file to spin up the whole shebang. [Read More]