In one of my last blog posts, I explained how you can set up a lightweight Docker Swarm environment. The concept, which is already an open-infrastructure project on GitHub, enables you to run your business applications and microservices in a self-hosted platform.
Today, I want to explain how you can monitor your Docker Swarm environment. Although Docker Swarm greatly simplifies the operation of business applications, monitoring is always a good idea. The following short tutorial shows how you can use Prometheus and Grafana to simplify monitoring.