How would you set up Prometheus and Grafana for microservices monitoring

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How would you set up Prometheus and Grafana for microservices monitoring?
This would be the configuration of monitoring tools for microservices, including tools that are able to handle distributed systems with real-time metrics and service health checks. This question gets into the configuration of Prometheus to collect metrics across several services, while Grafana is set up to effectively see and monitor these metrics. Example configurations can demonstrate best practices in terms of how alerts and dashboards can be set up and also specific metric collections in a Kubernetes or containerized environment.
Nov 13 in DevOps Tools by Anila
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To set up monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana in a microservices environment:

Install Prometheus: Use Helm or Kubernetes manifests to deploy Prometheus. Configure Prometheus to scrape metrics from microservices by setting up ServiceMonitors or PodAnnotations.

Configure Exporters: Your services may not natively expose metrics. To collect these metrics, you can add exporters, such as Node Exporter for node-level metrics or Redis Exporter for Redis metrics. Additionally, Prometheus client libraries are available in various programming languages, allowing you to integrate metric collection into your services.


Deploy Grafana: It provides visualization. Once you have Prometheus, configure Grafana as a dashboard provider by connecting it to Prometheus as a data source.

Set up dashboards and alerts:  Use default dashboards provided by Grafana Labs or create custom dashboards to visualize metrics of your microservices and set up alerts for important metrics such as high memory usage or failure of requests.

With the above setup, you can monitor in real-time and configure customizable alerts in a proactive sense.

answered Nov 25 by Gagana
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