In this blog post, we will discuss how to set up monitoring and alerting for Nginx ingress in a Kubernetes environment. We will cover the installation and configuration of ingress-nginx, Prometheus, and Grafana, and the setup of alerts for key Ingress metrics. Pre-requisites : A Kubernetes cluster Helm v3 Install Prometheus and Grafana In this step…

Helm is a popular open-source package manager for Kubernetes that simplifies the process of installing, upgrading, and managing applications on a Kubernetes cluster. Helm packages, called charts, contain all the necessary resources and configuration for deploying an application on a Kubernetes cluster. As with any software project, it’s important to…

Variable validations allow you to ensure that the values passed to your Terraform variables meet certain criteria before the resources are created. You can add a validation block to your variable definition, which contains a condition that must evaluate to true for the variable value to be considered valid. …

Introduction Syslog logging is a widely used method for collecting and storing log data. It is a standard that is supported by many applications and platforms. In this blog post, we will take a look at the basics of syslog parsing with Fluentd. What Is Syslog? Syslog is a protocol used for collecting log…

I’ve recently got a gaming laptop and monitoring the CPU & GPU temperature of it has been a tedious task, like install MSI Afterburner, configure statistics server, configure overlay etc. That made me use Grafana’s product suite to configure monitoring of key components such as CPU, GPU, Network, Disk and…

In this article, we’ll see how to set up Grafana with a remote database so that we can scale it to N instances. The default SQLite database will not work with scaling beyond 1 instance, since the SQLite3 DB is embedded inside Grafana container. Create Remote PostgreSQL using fly.io (Optional) For this demonstration, I’ll be using…

Grafana (Unified) Alerting allows you to learn about problems in your systems moments after they occur. It's a new alerting mechanism built into Grafana so that alerting and observability can be carried out at one sacred place. It also doesn't have any dependency over Alertmanager. Since it's a new alerting…

Prometheus remote write enables the capability to send metrics to a remote Prometheus storage server. This is primarily intended for long term storage. By default, Prometheus remote write sends all metrics stored in local Prometheus to a remote server. There’s a high likely chance you don’t need to send every…

Parsers are an important component of Fluent Bit, with them, you can take any unstructured log entry and give them a structure that makes it easier for processing and further filtering. In this part of fluent-bit series, we’ll collect, parse and push Apache & Nginx logs to Grafana Cloud Loki…