Monitoring with Prometheus

Technologies used:

• Prometheus, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS EKS, eksctl, Grafana, Linux, Redis, Node.js, Docker, Docker Hub

Job 1: Install Prometheus Stack in Kubernetes

Job description:

• Setup EKS cluster using eksctl
• Deploy Prometheus, Alert Manager and Grafana in cluster as part of the Prometheus Operator using Helm chart

Job 2: Configure Alerting for our Application

Job description:

Configure our Monitoring Stack to notify us whenever CPU usage > 50% or Pod cannot start

• Configure Alert Rules in Prometheus Server
• Configure Alertmanager with Email Receiver

Job 3: Configure Monitoring for a Third-Party Application

Job description:

• Deploy Redis service in our cluster
• Deploy Redis exporter using Helm Chart
• Configure Alert Rules (when Redis is down or has too many connections)
• Import Grafana Dashboard for Redis to visualize monitoring data in Grafana

Job 4: Configure Monitoring for Own Application

Job description:

• Configure our NodeJS application to collect & expose Metrics with Prometheus Client Library
• Deploy the NodeJS application, which has a metrics endpoint configured, into Kubernetes cluster
• Configure Prometheus to scrape this exposed metrics and visualize it in Grafana Dashboard