How to Deploy Nightingale: A Step‑by‑Step Docker Guide for High‑Availability Monitoring

Step 1: Pull the code

Clone the Nightingale repository from GitHub or download the latest tar package.

Step 2: Configure startup items

Download docker-compose and make it executable.

curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.25.0-rc4/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Generate and start the containers with Docker Compose.

cd /home/yeying-master/nightingale-master/dockerfiles
docker-compose up   # start

After startup, docker ps shows four containers.

Note: Ensure required ports are free.

If no errors appear, the service is accessible.

Initial login credentials are root / root.2020.

Step 3: Configure a node

wget http://116.85.64.82/n9e.tar.gz
tar -xf n9e.tar.gz

After extraction, copy configuration files to the node directory.

Edit address.yml to replace the default IP with the master node’s IP.

:%s/192\.168\.106\.132/ip/g

Set up a systemd service for the agent.

vim /usr/lib/systemd/system/agent.service
[Unit]
Description=n9e agent
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
User=root
Group=root
Type=simple
Environment="GIN_MODE=release"
ExecStart=/home/n9e/n9e-agent
WorkingDirectory=/home/n9e
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
StartLimitInterval=0

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

systemctl restart agent
systemctl enable agent
systemctl status agent

Web UI and resource management

Access the web interface, add node information, mount resources, and manage tasks.

The task execution center allows batch task execution across nodes.

Grafana integration

Install Grafana and add the Nightingale data source plugin.

wget https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana-7.3.2-1.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -i --nodeps grafana-7.3.2-1.x86_64.rpm
systemctl start grafana-server.service
systemctl status grafana-server.service

grafana-cli --pluginUrl https://github.com/n9e/grafana-n9e-datasource/archive/v1.5.3.zip plugins install grafana-n9e-datasource
systemctl restart grafana-server.service

Login with admin/admin and configure dashboards to visualize monitoring data.

The final dashboard displays the complete monitoring view.