Kubernetes Monitoring

TODOS

➜ Install Prometheus Operator

➜ Configure Grafana Dashboard

Requirements

• Kubernetes/kubectl
• helm3

Note: This setup is using kubespray and the sock shop demo microservice. For cluster setup and microservice deployment instructions click here

Install Prometheus

1. Create a namespace for prometheus

    kubectl create namespace monitoring

2. Get repo info

   helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
   
   helm repo add stable https://charts.helm.sh/stable
   
   helm repo update

3. Install prometheus operator with helm charts

   helm install prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack --namespace monitoring
   

4. Verify pods are running

   kubectl get pods -n monitoring

5. Access the dashboard

    kubectl port-forward $(kubectl get pods -n monitoring -o name | grep grafana) 8080:3000 -n monitoring
    #defualt login admin | prom-operator

Configure Grafana Dashboard

1. Once logged in navigate to the home button and check out the different metrics available

   #ex/
   Kubernetes/Compute Resources/Namespace(Pods)