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Published inMar 2020
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ISBN-139781838828042
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Murat Karslioglu
Murat Karslioglu
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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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Monitoring Kubernetes using Prometheus and Grafana

In this section, we will deploy Prometheus and Grafana on our Kubernetes cluster. You will learn how to monitor a Kubernetes service with Prometheus and use Grafana dashboards to visualize cluster and application metrics.

Getting ready

Clone the k8sdevopscookbook/src repository to your workstation to use manifest files in the chapter8 directory:

$ git clone https://github.com/k8sdevopscookbook/src.git
$ cd /src/chapter8

Make sure you have a Kubernetes cluster ready and kubectl configured to manage the cluster resources.

How to do it…

This section is further divided into the following subsections to make the process easier:

  • Deploying Prometheus Operator using Helm charts
  • Monitoring metrics using Grafana dashboards
  • Adding a Grafana dashboard to monitor applications

Deploying Prometheus using Helm charts

Prometheus is a popular open source solution for event monitoring and alerting. Prometheus records real-time metrics in a time...

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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Read more about Murat Karslioglu