observability-stack

Deploy a Prometheus and Grafana observability stack on Kubernetes by using Helm charts and custom YAML configurations to install the components into a monitoring namespace. This automates the setup of monitoring clusters and applications.

Custom alerting rules and dashboards for Kubernetes monitoring are configured automatically during the Helm deployment. The stack utilizes Grafana for dashboards and Alertmanager to manage the custom alerting rules.

You need kubectl and Helm to manage the Loki and Prometheus deployment. These command-line tools are required to execute the Helm chart installations and apply the custom YAML configurations.

The best way to troubleshoot metrics and manage alerts after a Kubernetes deployment is using provided day-2 operations commands. These commands facilitate querying metrics and handling Alertmanager rules.

The observability stack includes log aggregation alongside metrics monitoring. It deploys Loki for log aggregation, Prometheus for metrics, Grafana for visualization, and Alertmanager for alerting.

Using Helm to install an observability stack automates configuration management compared to manual Kubernetes YAML configurations. It simplifies deploying Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki with pre-configured dashboards and alerts.