Prometheus Stack

The Prometheus Stack provides a complete monitoring solution for your Kubernetes infrastructure and applications. EDKA’s deployment includes Prometheus for metrics collection, Grafana for visualization, and AlertManager for intelligent alerting.

Key Features

1. Comprehensive Monitoring: Automatic discovery and monitoring of all Kubernetes resources
2. Beautiful Dashboards: Pre-configured Grafana dashboards for immediate insights
3. Intelligent Alerting: Rule-based alerts with routing and silencing capabilities
4. Long-term Storage: Efficient time-series data storage with retention policies

What’s Included

• Prometheus Server with service discovery
• Grafana with 50+ pre-built dashboards
• AlertManager for alert routing and management
• Node Exporter for hardware and OS metrics
• Kube-state-metrics for Kubernetes metrics
• Prometheus Operator for easy management

Configuration Options

Monitoring Settings

• Scrape intervals and retention periods
• Custom scrape configurations
• Remote write for long-term storage
• Federation for multi-cluster monitoring

Alerting Configuration

• Pre-configured alert rules for common scenarios
• Custom alert rule creation
• Alert routing based on severity
• Integration with external notification systems

Grafana Customization

• Dashboard organization and folders
• User authentication and authorization
• Data source configuration
• Plugin installation support

Required Add-ons

This app requires the following EDKA add-ons:

• NGINX Ingress: For external access to Grafana
• Cert Manager: For TLS certificates
• Metrics Server: For resource metrics

Pre-configured Dashboards

Infrastructure Dashboards

• Kubernetes cluster overview
• Node resource utilization
• Pod and container metrics
• Network traffic analysis
• Storage usage and performance

Application Dashboards

• HTTP request metrics
• Database performance
• Message queue statistics
• Custom application metrics
• Business KPI tracking

Security & Compliance

• Security event monitoring
• Compliance violation alerts
• Access control metrics
• Certificate expiration tracking

Service Endpoints

After deployment, you’ll have access to:

• Grafana Dashboard: Web UI for visualization and exploration
• Prometheus UI: Query interface and target status
• AlertManager UI: Alert management and silencing
• Metrics API: Prometheus query endpoint for custom integrations

Alert Examples

Infrastructure Alerts

• High CPU or memory usage
• Disk space running low
• Pod crash loops
• Node not ready
• Certificate expiration warnings

Application Alerts

• High error rates
• Slow response times
• Service unavailable
• Queue backlog growing
• Database connection issues

Integration Options

• Slack: Real-time alert notifications
• PagerDuty: On-call escalation
• Email: Traditional email alerts
• Webhook: Custom integrations

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