K8s microservice monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana

Published in FAUN.dev() 🐾 | 3 min read

This article covers:

• Deploying applications with exposed Prometheus metrics
• Using Redis exporter in multi-container pods
• Configuring Prometheus scraping with kubernetes_sd_configs
• Setting up Grafana dashboards for per-pod monitoring
• Prometheus annotations for fine control of scraping
• Configuring data sources and alerts

Key Annotations:

• prometheus.io/scrape - Control scraping process
• prometheus.io/path - Define custom metrics path
• prometheus.io/port - Specify scraping port

Complete working code available on GitHub.

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