Tech Talk
Best Practices in Monitoring a Kubernetes Cluster With Prometheus, Grafana and Loki
About the Talk
If you’re responsible for a Kubernetes cluster, it’s important to know how to monitor its health and troubleshoot problems. Learn how to collect metrics from your cluster, setup alerts, and send notifications to the right people when something goes wrong.
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What You’ll Learn
- Setting up monitoring and logging using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki
- Which five key Kubernetes health metrics should be monitored
- Setting up Alertmanager to send alerts to an on-call engineer
This Talk Is Designed For
Anyone that is setting up production Kubernetes clusters.
Prerequisites
- You’ve connected to a Kubernetes cluster with the command-line tool kubectl.
- You’ve deployed workloads in a Kubernetes cluster.
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Is it a good idea to setup monitoring in the same cluster that we are trying to monitor?
What if the cluster itself is down/busy/overwhelmed and we can not connect to it?
Both Prometheus Setup Stack and Loki Setup Stack Resources links are broken.
Bharatji
Leov