Monitoring Your Kubernetes Cluster with Grafana, Prometheus, and Alertmanager

Today in this step by step guide, we'll set up Grafana, Prometheus, and Alertmanager to monitor your Kubernetes cluster. This can be set up really quickly using helm or the Rancher UI. We'll install and configure, set up some dashboards, and even set up some alerts using Slack. All this and more in this simple to follow, easy tutorial. Setting up Grafana and Prometheus has never been so easy. Video Notes: https://technotim.live/posts/rancher-monitoring/ Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/technotim Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/timothystewart6 Subscribe on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/technotim Become a YouTube member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOk-gHyjcWZNj3Br4oxwh0A/join Merch Shop: https://l.technotim.live/shop Gear Recommendations: https://l.technotim.live/gear Get Help in Our Discord Community: https://l.technotim.live/discord 2nd channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TechnoTimTalks (Affiliate links may be included in this description. I may receive a small commission at no cost to you.) 00:00 - Why Use Grafana, Premetheus, and Alert Manager 01:07 - Setting up Monitoring and Alerting with Rancher 01:53 - How to Install 02:32 - It's really just a Helm install 03:29 - Install process 04:11 - Grafana is collecting metrics 04:30 - Setting up Receivers in Promethus 05:00 - Setting up Alerts for Slack 05:40 - Adding a Webhook 07:33 - Prometheus / Alertmanager Routes 08:34 - Prometheus Rules 09:08 - Check Alerts in Slack 10:01 - Tuning Alerts 10:31 - Back to Grafana Charts and Graphs 10:56 - Grafana Dashboards 12:19 - We get quite a bit for nothing 13:06 - Would you use this? 13:15 - Stream Highlight "Hardware, Software, Services, Interaction === ♥" #Prometheus #Grafana #devops "Retrodomus" is from Harris Heller's album Breaker. https://l.technotim.live/sb-music-license Thank you for watching!