Monitoring and Observability

Prometheus and Grafana Setup

Prometheus

• Core Concepts

  • Time-series database for metrics
  • Pull-based metrics collection
  • PromQL query language
  • Alerting rules and notifications

• Best Practices

  • Use appropriate metric types (Counter, Gauge, Histogram, Summary)
  • Label metrics with relevant dimensions
  • Use metric naming conventions
  • Implement relabeling for metric filtering
  • Use federation for multi-cluster setups