grafana

Grafana

This setup will install Grafana in your cluster. Grafana is an open platform for beautiful analytics and monitoring.

In this setup, we use the following tools:

• Helm
• Traefik
• Cert-manager

Prerequisites

• A Kubernetes cluster
• Helm

Installation

1. Add the Grafana helm repository

helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts

2. Create a values.yaml file with the following content:

If you want to use external authentication, you can follow this yaml file: values_gh_oauth.yaml

ingress:
  enabled: true
  annotations: {
    spec.ingressClassName: traefik,
    cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: letsencrypt-prod
  }
  hosts:
    - example.com
  tls: 
    - secretName: grafana-tls
      hosts:
        - example.com
persistence:
  enabled: true

3. Install Grafana

helm upgrade --install grafana grafana/grafana --namespace monitoring --values values.yaml --create-namespace

4. Get the password of the admin user

kubectl get secret --namespace monitoring grafana -o jsonpath="{.data.admin-password}" | base64 --decode ; echo

5. Access the Grafana dashboard

You can access the Grafana dashboard at https://example.com with the username admin and the password you get in the previous step.