3 years ago

Category: Kubernetes, github, automation, yaml

In fact, Prometheus is considered a foundational building block for running applications on Kubernetes and has become the de-facto open source standard for visibility and monitoring in Kubernetes environments. Although open source, Prometheus does not come for free in terms of configuration that is required to properly monitor Kubernetes workloads.

As soon as you are comfortable with Prometheus as your weapon of choice, your next challenge will be scaling and managing Prometheus for your whole fleet of applications and environments.

The problem: This all represents a huge manual effort for managing configurations in your ecosystem for both Prometheus and Grafana.

Instead of manually writing queries and rules for Prometheus and its alert manager, as well as dashboard configurations for Grafana, you can use code generators to mitigate the manual work.