To quickly start all the things just do this:

kubectl apply \
  --filename https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giantswarm/prometheus/master/manifests-all.yaml

This will create the namespace monitoring and bring up all components in there.

To shut down all components again you can just delete that namespace:

kubectl delete namespace monitoring

If you want to re-import the default dashboards from this setup run this job:

kubectl apply --filename ./manifests/grafana/import-dashboards/job.yaml

In case the job already exists from an earlier run, delete it before:

kubectl --namespace monitoring delete job grafana-import-dashboards

To access grafana you can use port forward functionality

kubectl port-forward --namespace monitoring service/grafana 3000:3000

And you should be able to access grafana on http://localhost:3000/login

See grafana.net for some example dashboards and plugins.

• Configure Prometheus data source for Grafana.
  Grafana UI / Data Sources / Add data source

  • Name: prometheus
  • Type: Prometheus
  • Url: http://prometheus:9090
  • Add

• Import Prometheus Stats:
  Grafana UI / Dashboards / Import

  • Grafana.net Dashboard: https://grafana.net/dashboards/2
  • Load
  • Prometheus: prometheus
  • Save & Open

• Import Kubernetes cluster monitoring:
  Grafana UI / Dashboards / Import

  • Grafana.net Dashboard: https://grafana.net/dashboards/162
  • Load
  • Prometheus: prometheus
  • Save & Open

Alertmanager configs and integration in this repository was heavily inspired by the implementation in kayrus/prometheus-kubernetes.