📊 DevOps Track
Monitoring Stack
Deploy Prometheus + Grafana for metrics collection, alerting, and visualization of Kubernetes clusters.
⏱️ 8-10 hours
🎯 Intermediate
📋 Overview
"You can't improve what you don't measure." Deploy a production-grade monitoring stack with Prometheus for metrics scraping and Grafana for dashboards.
🔨 Implementation
Step 1: Install Prometheus Operator
kubectl create namespace monitoring
helm install prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack -n monitoring
Step 2: Create Custom Dashboard
Import a Node Exporter dashboard (ID: 1860) in Grafana
📦 Deliverables
- ✓Prometheus collecting cluster metrics
- ✓Grafana dashboard showing CPU, memory, disk
- ✓Alert rule for high CPU usage