Running Monitorr Application Dashboard in Docker

What is Monitorr?

"Monitorr” is a self-hosted PHP web app that monitors the status of local and remote network services, websites, and applications. -https://github.com/Monitorr/Monitorr

Installing Docker

  1. Log into the Linux based device
  2. Run the following commands in the terminal
    # install prerequisites
    sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common gnupg-agent -y
    # add docker gpg key
    curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/$(awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release)/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
    # add docker software repository
    sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)] https://download.docker.com/linux/$(awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release) $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
    # install docker
    sudo apt install docker-ce docker-compose containerd.io -y
    # enable and start docker service
    sudo systemctl enable docker && sudo systemctl start docker
    # add the current user to the docker group
    sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
    # reauthenticate for the new group membership to take effect
    su - $USER

Running Monitorr

  1. Now that Docker is installed, run the following commands to setup the Monitorr Docker container and run it
    # create working directories
    mkdir ~/docker/monitorr -p
    # set owner of working directories
    sudo chown "$USER":"$USER" ~/docker -R
    # run the monitorr docker container
    docker run -d --name=monitorr -v ~/docker/monitorr:/app -e TZ=America/New_York -e PGID=1000 -e PUID=1000 -p 8090:80 --restart=on-failure monitorr/monitorr
  2. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8090
  3. Click the Monitorr Settings link
  4. Click the Monitorr Registration link
  5. Click the Create button
  6. Scroll down and complete the form to create an administrator username and password > Click Register
  7. Click the Log in here link
  8. Login with the credentials created earlier
  9. Click Monitorr in the lower left corner of the page
  10. Welcome to Monitorr

Documentation: https://github.com/Monitorr/Monitorr/wiki/02-Config:--Docker