Beautiful Dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus - Monitoring Kubernetes Tutorial

Grafana and Prometheus are a powerful monitoring solution. It allows you to visualize, query, and alert metrics no matter where they are stored. Today, we'll install and configure Prometheus and Grafana in Kubernetes using kube-prometheus-stack. By the end of this tutorial you be able to observe and visualize your entire Kubernetes cluster with Grafana and Prometheus.

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00:00 - What is Prometheus and Grafana
01:52 - Ad: Datree - Prevent Kubernetes Misconfigurations
03:05 - Prometheus Requirements
05:41 - Create a Namspace
06:22 - Installing with Helm and Using Values
09:12 - Alert Manager Helm Values
10:34 - Grafana Helm Values
11:30 - Helm Values for k3s Server
12:30 - Overriding and Relabeling with Helm
13:18 - Storage Class with Helm
15:22 - Creating Kubernetes Secrets for Grafana
17:30 - Installing Prometheus Stack
19:16 - Port Forwarding to Grafana with Kubernetes
20:58 - Exploring Charts in Grafana
23:37 - My Home Production Cluster Metrics
26:58 - Stream Highlight: "Chat tries to get me to speak German"

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[epochphilosophy]

Actually mind blowing how easy you make these things, whereas I was to do this on my own it would take me weeks! Thanks so much for your work.

[AminM]

much appreciated, thank you
notes:
@15:22
graphana passwords, you can do them in terminal (but they are stored in history)
then you wrote to file echo > admin-user
which is stored in history

[DamjanKumin]

Tim, another “old school” video that is just fantastic! Keep it up :) ⭐️

[liamhardman]

Brilliant timing, just set up my own GKE Autopilot cluster a couple days back and wanted to implement and document monitoring!

[marwanfikrat]

This is really good. To the people who made Prometheus, to the implementers of helm and then the charts and finally you I can very easily get up and running. Thank you! Subscribed :))

[lightyagamiben]

Thanks for the great content Tim, your videos help me a lot at my work !!

[NarendraChennamsetty]

Incredible tutorial..this is exactly what I was looking for. Subscribed!

[kaitlynk]

Great video always love tutorials thanks for all you do

[patrickmartins]

This channel is fantastic! Thanks Tim for the great content. <3

[omarlittle]

Tim! I've been waiting for you to cover this!!

[nataliekruck]

Hey Tim, your videos are so great! Keep up this amazing work!

Ps: I would love an video on deploying gitlab. Seriously struggling 😅

[cyber-paul]

[REDACTED] Great detailed walk-through Tim. Thanks so much.

[filiecs]

Your talk of deleting secrets from the Yaml file reminded me that I recently solved this problem in my Kubernetes cluster.
Using Hashicorp-Vault paired with another project called External Secrets, I am able to automatically pull my secrets from Vault and inject them into my applications automatically.
You should do a video on that so that people don't risk keeping all their secrets in source control or on the host.

[roberto_camp]

Great video. You might want to consider advertising in the title that you are specifically working with the kube-prometheus-stack. This is a very powerful approach and I think it would great if your video title had some reference to that.

[RichDurso]

Tim, you talked about relabeling a bit in the config section but didn't see you cover what they did in the demo. I tried the labels you used as-is, and nothing changed. However, instead of "targetLabel: kubernetes_node" I tried "targetLabel: instance" and then some dashboards started changing instance IP address to node name. I'm using K3s with contrainerD (no docker).

[Bear-form]

Very good. I had issues implementing it before

[Subbeh]

Great stuff as always. Just checking where I can find the YAML file to edit the extra_server_args as mentioned in the video if you don't want to go the ansible route?

[dh-io]

As always a great video! I had planed to setup the same thing you did in the vid, a bit over two weeks ago, but my laptop broke and now I have to get it repaired or a new one.

#100daysofhomelab keep going

[minecraftbuildingtips]

Great video series! Question: what would be the proper way to add additional extra_server_args to a K3s cluster setup with your playbook?

[LampJustin]

25:00 Correction: It is a statefulset ;) Statefulsets always get created with a normal name and a number at the end. Replicasets in contrast get created by deployments and always have some random stuff at the end. Otherwise great video!