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Monitoring💣

This repository builds on the following upstream chart kube-prometheus-stack

Pre-requisites💣

  • Kubernetes cluster deployed
  • kubectl configuration installed
  • fluxv2 resources and controllers installed

Install kubectl

brew install kubectl

Install flux binary from https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2/releases

Configuration💣

Configuration can be done via editing and supplementing the values for the chart which follows the upstream values for kube-prometheus-stack

You can find the API Spec for the Prometheus Operator here

Grafana💣

By default an admin user with username “admin” and the configured password in the chart at “grafana.adminPassword” is created for logging into the Grafana UI.

Adding Dashboards💣

To supplement the dashboards already provided by the package you can add more dashboards that are automatically loaded into grafana:

Via Helm Values💣
  1. Ensure dashboardProviders values are populated (uncommented from package values in this case):
monitoring:
  values:
    grafana:
      dashboardProviders:
        dashboardproviders.yaml:
          apiVersion: 1
          providers:
            - name: "default"
              orgId: 1
              folder: ""
              type: file
              disableDeletion: false
              editable: true
              options:
                path: /var/lib/grafana/dashboards/default
  1. Populate dashboard JSON you can name in dashboards block like so:
monitoring:
  values:
    grafana:
      dashboards:
        default:
          some-dashboard:
            json: |
              $JSON_DATA$
  • Helm reconciliation will mount the JSON data to the grafana pod and restart, if not delete the grafana pod.
Via Configmap💣
  1. Download the JSON file for your dashboard, or ensure you have the config in JSON formatting.
  2. Create a secret or configmap like so, where you can include your JSON dashboard configuration inline:
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: my-custom-dashboard
  namespace: monitoring
  labels:
    grafana_dashboard: "1"
data:
  dashboard-name.json: |
    ...

*Any configmap in the monitoring namespace with the “grafana_dashboard” : “#” label will be scanned and imported into grafana automatically. This label can be updated in the helm values: grafana.sidecar.dashboards.label: …

Last update: 2022-03-11 by Ryan Garcia