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In Part 1 I covered setting up and running dockprom a containeried monitoring solution for Docker and its host. Now I will configure the alerts it is possible to send yourself should anything go awry.

Most of the projects I work on have strict rules regarding data privacy, using a SaaS outside EU it's not possible and even if so, I would not opt for an external service, paid or not, if I have a viable self-hosted open source solution. So I’ve been looking for an open source, self-hosted monitoring solution that can provide metrics storage, visualisation and alerting for physical servers, virtual machines, containers and services that are running inside containers. After trying out several others and Prometheus I’ve settled-on Prometheus, primarily due to its support for multi-dimensional metrics and the query language that’s easy to grasp.