# Monitor a Golang application with Prometheus and Grafana — Building and running the services

> Now that you have the Docker Compose file, you can build the services and run them together using Docker Compose.

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## Knowledge

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Now that you have the Docker Compose file, you can build the services and run them together using Docker Compose.

To build and run the services, run the following command in the terminal

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker compose up
```

The docker compose up command builds the services defined in the Docker Compose file and runs them together. You will see the similar output in the terminal

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
 ✔ Network go-prometheus-monitoring_go-network  Created                                                           0.0s
 ✔ Container grafana                            Created                                                           0.3s
 ✔ Container go-api                             Created                                                           0.2s
 ✔ Container prometheus                         Created                                                           0.3s
Attaching to go-api, grafana, prometheus
go-api      | [GIN-debug] [WARNING] Creating an Engine instance with the Logger and Recovery middleware already attached.
go-api      |
go-api      | [GIN-debug] [WARNING] Running in "debug" mode. Switch to "release" mode in production.
go-api      |  - using env:     export GIN_MODE=release
go-api      |  - using code:    gin.SetMode(gin.ReleaseMode)
go-api      |
go-api      | [
```

The services will start running, and you can access the Golang application at Prometheus at and Grafana at You can also check the running containers using the docker ps command.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker ps
```

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