Prometheus Introduction
Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
Installation using Helm
We will install Prometheus Operator using Helm. It is collection of Promethus + Grafana + Alertmanager + Node Exporter + Kube State Metrics + Pushgateway + Blackbox Exporter
Step 1: Create a Kubernetes Namespace
kubectl create namespace monitoring
Step 2: Install Prometheus Operator
helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
helm install prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack -n monitoring
Step 3: Accessing though localhost by Port forwarding
kubectl port-forward svc/prometheus-grafana 3000:80 -n monitoring
The Grafana dashboard will be available at http://localhost:3000. The default username and password are
admin$prom-operator.
What's next?
- Learning Resources - Learn more about Prometheus with these resources.