Complete guide to Prometheus setup, metric collection, scrape configuration, and recording rules.
Complete guide to Prometheus setup, metric collection, scrape configuration, and recording rules.
resources/implementation-playbook.md.Configure Prometheus for comprehensive metric collection, alerting, and monitoring of infrastructure and applications.
┌──────────────┐
│ Applications │ ← Instrumented with client libraries
└──────┬───────┘
│ /metrics endpoint
↓
┌──────────────┐
│ Prometheus │ ← Scrapes metrics periodically
│ Server │
└──────┬───────┘
│
├─→ AlertManager (alerts)
├─→ Grafana (visualization)
└─→ Long-term storage (Thanos/Cortex)
helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
helm install prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack \
--namespace monitoring \
--create-namespace \
--set prometheus.prometheusSpec.retention=30d \
--set prometheus.prometheusSpec.storageVolumeSize=50Gi