helm-charts VS dockprom

Installation example for prometheus:

Prometheus can be deployed using the Prometheus Helm Chart. This helm chart contains a lot of features such as the already mentioned Push Gateway, Alert Manager and so on. For simplicity reasons of this tutorial I will not show all the Helm chart configuration but you can see a real example used by me here.

Building upon Bartłomiej Płotka's insightful blog on Prometheus and its passthrough agent mode, this post dives into implementing multi-cluster Prometheus support. Notably, the official inclusion of support in the widely-used kube-prometheus-stack came with the release in July 2023, making it easier to extend Prometheus monitoring across clusters.

The first thing you'll need, of course, is at least one backend to store metrics. So install Prometheus now:

For the request following, something like jeager https://www.jaegertracing.io/, because you are talking more about tracing than necessarily logging. For just monitoring, https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/kube-prometheus-stack would be the starting point, then it depends. Nginx gives metrics out of the box, then you can pull in the dashboard like https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/14314-kubernetes-nginx-ingress-controller-nextgen-devops-nirvana/ , or full metal with something like service mesh monitoring which would provably fulfil most of the requirements

kube-prometheus-stack is a Helm chart that contains several components to monitor the Kubernetes cluster, along with Grafana dashboards Grafana Dashboards to visualize the data. This option will be used in this article.

This one I highly recommend: https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/kube-prometheus-stack

We use kube-prometheus-stack for metrics and have added the K8s views dashboards from grafana-dashboards-kubernetes. You should check out the k8s-views-global dashboard. I believe it's just what you are looking for.

You should take a look at "kube-prometheus-stack". It not only includes prometheus, node-exporter and Grafana but also a ton of preconfigured alerts and dashboards. Will save you a lot of work!

This guide before was just just kinda streamlined version of of the great stefanprodan/dockprom.

Dockprom is a solid starting point. It gives the essentials and you can tweak it to your liking. For example I forgo Alertmanager (for now) but have added more exporters, data sources, etc.

For tracking stats - Grafana, paired with appropriate backends. Dockprom is a nice starting point as it comes with most things preconfigured. You just need to tweak them accordingly.

i used Dockprom (https://github.com/stefanprodan/dockprom) at one point, it looks and works well however I found the CPU usage at the time higher than it should be. Your CPU would handle it easily, but it was still causing 10% CPU usage which i didn't like. I don't think this is a widespread common issue it's a very popular project but just a heads up to keep an eye on CPU if you decide to test it out.

Take a look at https://github.com/stefanprodan/dockprom as a way to work with Docker, docker compose, grafana, prometheus and more.

https://github.com/stefanprodan/dockprom Read the YML and remove what you aren’t using.

If you run plex in a docker container I highly recommend this grafana dashboard setup: https://github.com/stefanprodan/dockprom

Something like dockerprom can do that for you :) https://github.com/stefanprodan/dockprom