Update monitoring setup docs

book/src/users/monitoring.md

@@ -227,6 +227,17 @@ Modify the `http_adr` line to use localhost
 ;http_addr = # Before
 http_addr = localhost # After
 ```
+
+Copy the provisioning files. From trin root directory:
+```sh
+sudo cp -R etc/grafana/provisioning /etc/grafana/provisioning
+```
+Modify prometheus datasource to use localhost
+```ini
+    url: http://host.docker.internal:9090 # Before
+    url: http://127.0.0.1:9090 # After
+```
+
 Start grafana
 ```sh
 sudo systemctl daemon-reload
@@ -236,16 +247,9 @@ sudo systemctl enable grafana-server
 ```
 This will serve metrics over port 3000.
 
-Generate a grafana dashboard. From trin root directory:
-```sh
-cargo run -p trin -- create-dashboard http://localhost:3000 admin admin http://127.0.0.1:9090
-```
 This will create a new monitoring database for trin. This will
 be visible in the grafana GUI, or directly at a URL similar to:
-http://localhost:3000/d/trin-app-metrics/trin-app-metrics
-
-If you would like to run the create-dashboard command again, the
-data source and the dashboard must be deleted, which can be done in the grafana GUI.
+http://localhost:3000/d/trin-metrics/trin-metrics
 
 ### Start trin with metrics on
 
@@ -295,7 +299,7 @@ docker run -p 9090:9090 -v /**absolute/path/to/trin/etc/prometheus**:/etc/promet
 ```
 3. Run Grafana:
 ```sh
-docker run -p 3000:3000 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway grafana/grafana:latest
+docker run -p 3000:3000 -v /**absolute/path/to/trin/etc/grafana/provisioning**:/etc/grafana/provisioning --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway grafana/grafana:latest
 ```
 4. Start your Trin process with:
 ```sh
@@ -305,13 +309,10 @@ cargo run -p trin -- --enable-metrics-with-url 0.0.0.0:9100 --web3-http-address
   complete, and requests from docker instances are considered external.
 - The `--enable-metrics-with-url` parameter is the address that Trin exports metrics to, and should be equal to the port to which your Prometheus server is targeting at the bottom of `prometheus/prometheus.yml`
 - The `--web-transport http` will allow Grafana to request routing table information from Trin via JSON-RPC over HTTP
-5. From the root of the Trin repo, run `cargo run -p trin -- create-dashboard`. If you used different ports than detailed in the above steps, or you are not using docker, then this command's defaults will not work. Run the command with the `-h` flag to see how to provide non-default addresses or credentials.
-6. Upon successful dashboard creation, navigate to the dashboard URL that the `create-dashboard` outputs. Use `admin`/`admin` to login.
+5. Navigate to http://localhost:3000/d/trin-metrics/trin-metrics. Use `admin`/`admin` to login.
 
 ## Gotchas
 
-- If `create-dashboard` fails with an error, the most likely reason is that it has already been run. From within the Grafana UI, delete the "json-rpc" and    "prometheus" datasources and the "trin" dashboard and re-run the command.
-
 - There is a limit on concurrent connections given by the threadpool. At last
   doc update, that number was 2, but will surely change. If you leave
   connections open, then new connections will block.