# Monitoring/Alerting for your Validator

**URL:** <https://forum.cosmos.network/t/monitoring-alerting-for-your-validator/446>\
**Category:** Validation\
**Created:** [July 10, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/monitoring-alerting-for-your-validator/446 "2018-07-10T18:49:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![katernoir](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/katernoir/32/96_2.png) [@katernoir](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/katernoir)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/monitoring-alerting-for-your-validator/446/28 "2018-08-30T10:13:24Z")

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Because I’ve been asked this a lot, I provided a smat step-by-step instruction to setup Grafana with my dashboard. Hope this works and will help people to get started.

1. Step: Install Grafana ([http://docs.grafana.org/installation/debian/](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/debian/)) & start it

2. Step: In .gaiad/config.toml set prometheus=true

3. Step: Restart gaiad to apply config changes

4. Step: Download prometheus ([https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/first\_steps/](https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/first_steps/)), edit prometheus.yml  
Add the following:

5. Step: start prometheus with: ./prometheus --config.file=prometheus.yml

6. Step: Open Grafana in Browser & Do initial Setup

7. Step: Under Configuration -\> Data Source -\> Add a new Data Source

Name: CosmosDataSource  
Type: Prometheus  
URL: [http://localhost:9090](http://localhost:9090)  
Scrape Interval: 5s  
Rest is Default

-\> Save&Test should add DataSource

1. Step: In Grafana goto Dashboard -\> Import
2. Step: Paste 7044 (this is my Dashboard template for Grafana), Choose “CosmosDataSource” as Data Source
3. Step: You should now have a working Dashboard 🙂

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