David Calvert, a site reliability engineer at Powder, describes his experience in building and operating Kubernetes clusters using Grafana and Prometheus for monitoring purposes. At Powder, an AI-powered gaming platform, the team uses Amazon EKS and other cloud services to manage their applications, relying on kube-prometheus-stack to deploy Prometheus and Grafana for metrics visualization. Calvert developed his own open-source Grafana dashboards for Kubernetes monitoring, which gained wider attention after he promoted them through a blog post. These dashboards, part of the dotdc/grafana-dashboards-kubernetes project, have been enhanced by community contributions and are now used to monitor and optimize both applications and infrastructure at Powder. The team is also transitioning to the Grafana LGTM Stack by adopting Grafana Tempo and OpenTelemetry, aiming for better integration of observability tools. Grafana offers a full Kubernetes Monitoring solution in Grafana Cloud, providing out-of-the-box access to metrics, logs, and events for Kubernetes users.