Company
Date Published
Author
Prasad Doddi
Word count
2039
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The text provides a comprehensive guide on deploying and managing Prometheus and Grafana within a Kubernetes environment, specifically on Amazon EKS, utilizing the Kube-Prometheus project. It outlines the process of setting up various components, including the Prometheus Operator, AlertManager, Node Exporter, and Grafana, emphasizing the importance of ServiceMonitors for tracking metrics from services like Couchbase. The tutorial details commands for creating necessary Kubernetes resources, such as namespaces and custom resource definitions, and explains how to configure Prometheus for dynamic service discovery and port forwarding to access services like Grafana and Prometheus. Additionally, the guide covers building a Grafana dashboard to monitor Couchbase metrics, utilizing Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) for querying data, and ends with instructions for cleaning up the deployment. Throughout, it stresses the need for proper namespace configurations to ensure accurate metric collection and service monitoring.