This guide walks you through setting up a Jenkins monitoring stack using Docker only, with data visualization in Grafana, data collection in InfluxDB, and Jenkins pipelines sending metrics to Influx.

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📦 Stack Components

Jenkins: CI/CD pipelines
InfluxDB: Time-series database for storing Jenkins metrics
Prometheus: (Optional in this stack)
Grafana: Dashboards for Jenkins metrics visualization

⚙️ Setup Using Docker

1. Prometheus

docker run -d --name prometheus-container \
  -v /home/ubuntu/prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -p 9090:9090 \
  ubuntu/prometheus:2.33-22.04_beta

ℹ️Adjust prometheus.yml as per your job scraping requirements.

2. Grafana

docker run -d -p 8086:8086 --name influxdb2 influxdb:1.8.6-alpine

3. InfluxDB (v1.8)

docker run -d -p 8086:8086 --name influxdb2 influxdb:1.8.6-alpine

4. Jenkins

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 --name jenkins jenkins/jenkins:lts-jdk11

🔗 InfluxDB Setup for Jenkins Metrics

Access InfluxDB and Create Database

docker exec -it influxdb2 bash influx

Run the following commands inside the Influx shell:

CREATE DATABASE "jenkins" WITH DURATION 1825d REPLICATION 1 NAME "jenkins-retention";
SHOW DATABASES;
USE jenkins;

🔌 Jenkins Configuration

✅ Required Plugins Install these plugins from Jenkins Plugin Manager:

Prometheus Plugin
InfluxDB Plugin
Job and Stage Monitoring Plugin

SETUP

🔧 Global Configuration

Go to Manage Jenkins → Configure System

Scroll to InfluxDB Target

Add:

URL: http://<influx_host>:8086 Database: jenkins Custom Prefix: jenkins_data (if needed) Retention Policy: jenkins-retention

📊 Jenkins + Grafana + InfluxDB Dashboard

This project helps you visualize Jenkins pipeline data using Grafana dashboards powered by InfluxDB.

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🧪 Generate Sample Data

Create folders and multiple pipelines.

Run jobs with various outcomes:

• ✅ Success

• ❌ Failure

• ⚠️ Unstable

• 🛑 Aborted

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📊 Grafana Dashboard Design

🔍 Filtering & Visualization

Use templated variables for filtering:

• job, folder, status

Create dropdowns using Influx queries like:

SHOW TAG VALUES FROM job WITH KEY = "owner";
SHOW TAG VALUES FROM job WITH KEY = repo WHERE "owner" =~ /^($folder)$/;

COMPLETE DASHBOARD

📬 Feel free to contribute or suggest improvements!