diff --git a/ansible/playbooks/requirements.yml b/ansible/playbooks/requirements.yml
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+++ b/ansible/playbooks/requirements.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+collections:
+  - freeipa.ansible_freeipa
+  - community.general
+  - ansible.posix
+
+
+roles:
+  - name: geerlingguy.mysql
+  - name: cloudalchemy.prometheus
+  - name: cloudalchemy.node-exporter
diff --git a/ansible/playbooks/role-rocky-monitoring.yml b/ansible/playbooks/role-rocky-monitoring.yml
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+---
+# Creates the first monitoring server
+# Reccommended specs
+# CPU: 2 cores
+# Memory: 2GB
+# Storage: a piece of string
+- name: Install Prometheus
+  hosts: monitoringserver
+  become: true
+
+  pre_tasks:
+    - name: Verify if we can run ansible
+      assert:
+        that:
+          - "not no_ansible.stat.exists"
+        msg: "/etc/no-ansible exists - skipping run on this node"
+    - name: Install SELinux packages
+      package:
+        name: python3-policycoreutils.noarch
+        state: latest
+
+  role:
+    - role: cloudalchemy.prometheus
+
+  post_tasks:
+    - name: Touching run file that ansible has ran here
+      file:
+        path: /var/log/ansible.run
+        state: touch
+        mode: '0644'
+        owner: root
+        group: root
diff --git a/ansible/playbooks/vars/monitoring.yml b/ansible/playbooks/vars/monitoring.yml
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+---
+#prometheus_targets:
+#  node:
+#    - targets:
+#        - host1
+#        - host2
+#      labels:
+#        env: production
diff --git a/ansible/roles/requirements.yml b/ansible/roles/requirements.yml
index f796222..c1d5195 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/requirements.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/requirements.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 roles:
   - name: geerlingguy.mysql
+  # monitoring
+  - name: cloudalchemy.node-exporter
+  - name: cloudalchemy.prometheus
 
 collections:
   # freeipa