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[uschtwill]

I just felt like opening up an avenue for users of this suite to have a conversation more easily.

So if you want to give any sort of feedback, want to share how you're using the suite, pose a quick question, or anything else of that sort, this is the place.

I am not sure how (un)orthodox its is to use issues in this way, but it seems like a legitimate thing to do - so why not? Of course, please open a separate issue for anything more discrete or serious.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

[bnjroos]

Good afternoon uschtwill,

First thank you for your suite.
I am encountering a little issue when I try to install the suite in secure mode I always get the following messages:
WARNING: The DOMAIN variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. WARNING: The PASSWORD variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
Furthermore once installed, when I try to connect to any prometheus.DOMAIN or grafana.DOMAIN for example I am just redirected to the classic Welcome to nginx! page.

Any idea why it is behaving this way ?

TIA

Benjamin

[uschtwill]

Hey bjnroos,

are you setting and substituting YOUR_DOMAIN and VERY_STRONG_PASSWORD with your information when running sh setup.sh secure YOUR_DOMAIN VERY_STRONG_PASSWORD? The script expects those values to be set. If you look at setup.sh and docker-compose.secure.yml you can see that they are used to set up the proxying configuration and basic auth for nginx.

Cheers
Will

[bnjroos]

Yes I am using my own domain name and I have generated a password. I had a look at the file also and I have no clue why it is behaving like this.
I have also tried to set the variable prior to launching the script by using export without success.
I am on a ubuntu 16.04 distro server.

[laysp]

Hi uschtwill,

Firstly, thanks for all the work you've put into this suite and its documentation. I'm not entirely clear though on how to get containers running on a different host outputting their data to the suite? I know for logging it's necessary to add:

logging:
  driver: gelf
  options:
    gelf-address: udp://suiteshostip:12201
    labels: container_group

To the docker-compose.yml used to create (for example) a Wordpress container. But nothing from my Wordpress container appears in Kibana etc. after running the secure mode setup - it only seems to be seeing the containers that make up the suite?

Also, I'm not sure how to direct container output for monitoring to the suite - presumably the above logging lines only handle the logging side of things and not monitoring or alerting?

[uschtwill]

@bnjroos: Sorry, at the moment I can't help you with that.

@laysp:

presumably the above logging lines only handle the logging side of things and not monitoring or alerting?

That is correct. Also the IP for gelf-addresss should not be the host's IP, but the Logstash container's IP. Inter-host aggregation of logging and metrics is not supported out of the box yet. Check this issue for details and ideas: #11