k8dash VS prometheus

Skooner (https://skooner.io/) is a nice alternative to Lens too. It offers a mobile view too which no other tool is offering right now (Not even Lens!). Devtron (https://github.com/devtron-labs/devtron) is also a good alternative to Lens. It is open source and lets you view pods and exec into pods just like Lens. It manages Helm charts better than Lens.

Then the next step can be using Docker and Kubernetes. Your application will be running inside the Docker container and Kubernetes will be managing all the resources. So Kubernetes can do already some scaling and allocate more resources to your application when needed. As well you can use Skooner (https://github.com/skooner-k8s/skooner) , a dashboard for Kubernetes. From there you can see if your Kubernetes configuration is optimal or it needs some tweaking (more CPU, more RAM, perhaps bigger disk...).

Skooner—previously known as "K8Dash"—is the first entry on this list to directly target the use case of being a Kubernetes dashboard. It gives you everything you'd want in a dashboard, from viewing your configurations and workloads to even managing them and editing the YAML directly in the UI.

Having received a face-lift and new name, Skooner continues to be a leading open-source tool for holistically monitoring Kubernetes. The developers behind the project tout the simplicity and real-time availability of their solution—no refreshes or manual polling is required to fetch system data as it’s collected. Additionally, the YAML provided within the tool’s resource repository allows you to start leveraging Skooner in just a minute’s time.

Check this one out as well: https://github.com/skooner-k8s/skooner

It's like Prometheus, but for logs. Okay it's not really to do with the Norse or Greek gods, instead Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by the open source project Prometheus. Built by Grafana Labs, Loki is designed for ease of use. Instead of indexing the contents of the logs, Loki provides a set of labels for each log stream. The latest update includes query acceleration with Bloom filters, native OTel support, Helm charts, and more. Check out the changelog for all the major changes and deprecations.

WriteRequest::timeseries is a vector (https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/main/prompb/re...) and

Developers widely use Prometheus as a system for operational monitoring and alerting for their projects. Here is a list of tools for monitoring frontend services with Prometheus.

Just to give an example of the power of Go for CLI builds, you may have already used or at least heard of Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Terraform, but what do they all have in common? They all have a large part of their usability via CLI and are developed in Go 🐿.

Distributed system administrators need mechanisms and tools for monitoring individual nodes in order to analyze the system and promptly detect anomalies. Developers also need effective mechanisms for analyzing, diagnosing issues, and identifying bugs in protocol implementations. Logging, tracing, and collecting metrics are common observability techniques to allow monitoring and obtaining diagnostic information from the system; most of the explored code bases use these techniques. OpenTelemetry and Prometheus are popular open-source monitoring solutions, which are used in many of the explored code bases.

Setting up monitoring for a system, especially one involving GRPC communication, provides crucial visibility into its operations. In this guide, we walked through the steps to instrument both a GRPC server and client with Prometheus metrics, exposed those metrics via an HTTP endpoint, and visualized them using Grafana. The Docker-Compose setup simplified the deployment of both Prometheus and Grafana, ensuring a streamlined process.

Alerting and Notification: Select a tool with flexible alerting mechanisms to proactively detect anomalies or deviations from defined thresholds. Consider asking questions like "Does this tool offer customizable alerting options and support notification channels that suit our team's communication preferences?" A tool like Prometheus provides robust alerting capabilities.

Prometheus

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit. It is designed to monitor highly dynamic containerized systems, making it an excellent choice for monitoring Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters.