Grafana¶

Kubernetes and Cloud Native¶

CICD¶

Continuous Deployment¶

• (2020) jaxenter.com: CI/CD for Spring Boot Microservices: Part 2. Extending CI/CD: Kubernetes Continuous Deployment for Microservices [JAVA CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Part two of the microservices CI/CD series, detailing continuous deployment onto active Kubernetes clusters. Focuses on orchestrating declarative manifest YAML files, configuring deployment strategies like rolling updates, and handling Kubernetes secrets securely.

Observability¶

Log Management¶

Deployment Guides¶

• (2021) youtube.com: Grafana Loki Promtail | Grafana Loki Setup And Configuration On CentOs [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A video deployment guide demonstrating how to install and configure Grafana Loki and Promtail on CentOS systems. It covers host-level systemd service configuration, log routing patterns, and connecting local log collectors to centralized Loki nodes.

Grafana Loki¶

• (2020) Log Monitoring and Alerting with Grafana Loki [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A detailed deployment guide focusing on log monitoring and alerting integration using Grafana Loki and Promtail. Loki's design indexing only log metadata allows clusters to achieve cost-efficient, low-latency log collection compared to full-text indexing solutions.

Observability and Delivery¶

Kubernetes Observability¶

Grafana Cloud¶

• (2021) grafana.com: A 3-step guide to troubleshooting and visualizing Kubernetes with Grafana Cloud [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Simplifies cluster-wide observability configurations down to three primary phases: installing the agent, collecting Prometheus metrics/Loki logs, and loading predefined cluster-health dashboards. Provides actionable advice to visually debug pod scheduling limits, node starvation, and OOM-Killed container cycles rapidly.

Synthetic Monitoring¶

Grafana Alerting¶

• (2021) grafana.com: Top 5 user-requested synthetic monitoring alerts in Grafana Cloud [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Shares actionable configurations for the most prominent user-requested synthetic monitoring alerts in Grafana Cloud, including DNS failures, HTTP latency spikes, SSL certificate expirations, and global availability drops. Facilitates preemptive identification of microservice edge-network connectivity failures before user impact occurs.

Observability and Monitoring¶

Data Collection¶

Telemetry Agents¶

• (2024) grafana/agent: Grafana Agent ⭐ 1709 [GO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] [LEGACY] — An agent for metrics, logs, and trace collection. Live grounding confirms Grafana Agent is now deprecated and succeeded by Grafana Alloy, the vendor's unified telemetry collector for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.

Kubernetes Deployment¶

Core Infrastructure Dashboards¶

• (2024) github.com/dotdc/grafana-dashboards-kubernetes 🌟 ⭐ 3599 [JSON CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Production-grade, community-approved Kubernetes dashboards. Delivers deep, clean observability of APIServer, node memory, CPU scheduling, storage, and pod ingress configurations.

Grafana Ecosystem¶

• (2023) devopscube.com: How To Setup Grafana On Kubernetes [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Technical blueprint for deploying Grafana on a Kubernetes cluster. Details setup architectures using Helm charts, Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) for persistence, and ConfigMaps to configure programmatic dashboards.

Virtualization Monitoring¶

• (2023) github.com/kubevirt/monitoring ⭐ 28 [GO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Defines monitoring instrumentation targets for KubeVirt resources. Provides Prometheus alerting rules and Grafana dashboard templates specifically optimized to monitor VM workloads running in Kubernetes.

Log Management (1)¶

Kubernetes Logging¶

• (2022) itnext.io: Logging in Kubernetes with Loki and the PLG Stack [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Detailed implementation guide for deploying the PLG (Prometheus, Loki, Grafana) stack on Kubernetes. Illustrates logging agent configurations that offer a lightweight alternative to EFK.

Log Aggregation¶

• (2024) Grafana Loki [GO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Grafana Loki is a highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation engine designed to index metadata labels instead of log contents. Minimizes overhead and simplifies Kubernetes-native log parsing.

Metrics Storage¶

Scalable TSDB¶

• (2022) github.com/grafana/mimir ⭐ 5124 [GO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Grafana Mimir is a highly scalable, multi-tenant database for long-term Prometheus metrics storage. Engineered to easily process billions of active series with fast query performance and operational isolation.

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