So I've installed grafana, loki, and prometheus on the personal Kubernetes cluster via Terraform. Now what?

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  • I have a public repo where I do all my work out in the open as part of a type of homelab scenario. I'm wondering what I should be doing next now that I've installed all that monitoring/logging and want to continue playing around with it. I know there is a terraform provider for grafana and I know I should create a dashboard of some sort, but not sure exactly what to include in that dashboard? Is there some sort of way to visualize the logs that loki is collecting? What should I be doing with prometheus besides looking at the default targets? Thanks in advance!

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  • Like this? I suppose I've done everything except create a dashboard in grafana and alerts for it, could be worth a shot. Thanks for the actual suggestions! Definitely more along the lines of what I am looking for with this post.

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  • Thanks! I currently run Pritunl on the cluster, but I could definitely host my resume on there as well. I could stand to learn tools like https://locust.io or Bees With Machines Guns as a load testing exercise for sure. I will dive into it!

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