Increased management overhead for SREs and platform teams
Managing and scaling Due to the challenges with controlling alert fatigue, troubleshooting, and maintaining numerous times, Prometheus adds to the management cost for SREs and platform teams. Hand work can be substantially decreased by automating configuration and management using software like infrastructure-as-code solutions and Kubernetes Operators. Prometheus Alertmanager’s intelligent alerting methods can be used to prioritize significant issues while decreasing noise. Proactive detection of monitoring systemic issues is ensured via establishing meta-monitoring with a secondary Prometheus instance. When combined, these approaches improve operational efficiency and reduce the extra load on platform teams and SREs.
Kubernetes Prometheus
With modern DevOps becoming more and more complex, monitoring and alerting stakeholders has become even more crucial for any microservice, and Prometheus is a tool to do the same. Prometheus is a completely open-sourced tool created to monitor highly dynamic container environments like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc. However, it can also be used in a traditional non-container infrastructure where you have just bare servers with applications deployed directly on them. In this article, we will learn what prometheus is. We will see why Prometheus is so important in such infrastructure. And what are some of its use cases?
Table of Content
- What is Prometheus Monitoring?
- Why use Prometheus for Kubernetes monitoring?
- Prometheus Architecture
- Key Terminologies
- Tutorial – Deploying Prometheus Monitoring in Kubernetes Cluster
- Step 1: Creating a Kubernetes Cluster
- Step 2: Installing Helm
- Step 3: Adding the Prometheus repository
- Step 4: Installing Prometheus
- Step 5: Checking all the resources installed
- Step 6: Expose the “prometheus-server” Service
- Advantages of Prometheus
- How Prometheus compares to other Kubernetes monitoring tools
- The challenges of Prometheus scaling and monitoring
- Increased management overhead for SREs and platform teams
- Prometheus Kubernetes Service Discovery
- Conclusion
- Kubernetes Prometheus – FAQ’s