We continue to develop our monitoring stack. See the first part – VictoriaMetrics: creating a Kubernetes monitoring stack with its own Helm chart. What do we want to do next: give access to developers so that they can set Silence for alerts themselves in Alertmanager to avoid spamming Slack, see Prometheus: Alertmanager Web UI alerts… Read More »
So, we have Loki installed from the chart in simple-scale mode, see Grafana Loki: architecture and running in Kubernetes with AWS S3 storage and boltdb-shipper. Loki is runnings on an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster, installed with Loki Helm chart, AWS S3 is used as a long-term store, and BoltDB Shipper is used to… Read More »
Now we have VictoriaMetrics + Grafana on a regular EC2 instance, launched with Docker Compose, see the VictoriaMetrics: an overview and its use instead of Prometheus. It was kind of a Proof of Concept, and it’s time to launch it “in an adult way” – in Kubernetes and all the configurations stored in a… Read More »
I’ve heard a lot about VictoriaMetrics for a long time, and finally, it’s time to try it out. So, in a nutshell – VictoriaMetrics is “Prometheus on steroids” and is fully compatible with it – can use its configuration files, exporters, PromQL, etc. So for me who has always used Prometheus, the first question… Read More »