Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
Prometheus scrapes metrics from services and stores them in a time-series database. Grafana visualizes this data with customizable dashboards.
Workflow:
- Install Prometheus and Grafana via Helm.
- Expose metrics via exporters (node-exporter, kube-state-metrics).
- Use Grafana to build dashboards from Prometheus queries.
Basic Helm Install:
helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm install prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack