Dokploy Monitoring Stack

Grafana + Loki + Tempo + Mimir + Alloy as a single Dokploy Compose service.

Architecture

flowchart LR
    user([User])
    apps[Apps / Clients]
    node[node-exporter]

    subgraph Ingest
        alloy[Alloy]
    end

    subgraph Storage
        loki[(Loki)]
        tempo[(Tempo)]
        mimir[(Mimir)]
    end

    grafana[Grafana]

    apps --> alloy
    node --> alloy
    alloy --> loki
    alloy --> tempo
    alloy --> mimir
    loki --> grafana
    tempo --> grafana
    mimir --> grafana
    grafana --> user

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Setup in Dokploy

1. Create Service → Compose

   • Provider: Git
   • Repository: this repo (or your fork)
   • Branch: main
   • Compose path: docker-compose.yml
   

2. Domains — open the Domains tab and add each entry below.

   Host	Path	Service	Container Port
   grafana.<your-domain>	/	grafana	3000
   alloy.<your-domain>	/v1	alloy	4318
   alloy.<your-domain>	/loki	alloy	3500
   alloy.<your-domain>	/api/v1/metrics/write	alloy	9090

   

   Default Grafana login: admin / password

3. Protect Alloy with basic auth (Traefik middleware)

   a. Generate a hashed credential

   htpasswd -nb admin 'password'
   # → admin:$apr1$G3T3XOqn$6JGifVcvveyWFg7gYWZjH0

   b. Create the middleware in Dokploy: go to Dokploy → Settings → Traefik (or the Traefik tab on the server) and open the dynamic config file editor. Add a new file middlewares.yml (or append to an existing one):

   http:
     middlewares:
       alloy-auth:
         basicAuth:
           # admin / password
           users:
             - "admin:$apr1$G3T3XOqn$6JGifVcvveyWFg7gYWZjH0"

   c. Attach it to each Alloy domain. In the service's Domains tab, edit each alloy.<your-domain> row:

   alloy-auth@file
   

Commands

# bash (curl)
./examples/sh/send-test-log.sh "hello from devops"
./examples/sh/send-test-metric.sh 42
./examples/sh/send-test-trace.sh

# node
cd examples/node && pnpm start