Prometheus

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.

Learning Resources

• Prometheus Playlist - TechWorld with Nana

Installation using Helm

We will install Prometheus Operator using Helm. It is collection of Promethus + Grafana + Alertmanager + Node Exporter + Kube State Metrics + Pushgateway + Blackbox Exporter

Step 1: Create a Kubernetes Namespace

kubectl create namespace monitoring

Step 2: Install Prometheus Operator

helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
helm install prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack -n monitoring

Step 3: Accessing though localhost by Port forwarding

kubectl port-forward svc/prometheus-grafana 3000:80 -n monitoring

The Grafana dashboard will be available at http://localhost:3000. The default username and password are admin $ prom-operator.