Prometheus Operator with Yandex Monitoring

Prometheus Operator makes it easy to install and manage the Prometheus monitoring system.

The application is integrated with Yandex Monitoring as remote storage in Prometheus that can be used for writing and reading metrics via the Remote API.

The Prometheus API functionality is at the Preview stage.

1. Make sure the security groups for the Managed Service for Kubernetes cluster and its node groups are configured correctly. If any rule is missing, add it.

   The configuration of security groups determines the performance and availability of the cluster and the services and applications running in it.

2. Create a service account with the monitoring.editor role.

3. Create an API key in JSON format for the service account and save it to the sa-key.json file:

   yc iam api-key create \
      --service-account-name=<service_account_name> \
      --format=json > sa-key.json
   

4. Configure Prometheus Operator:

   • Namespace: Select a namespace or create a new one.
   • Application name: Enter a name for the application.
   • Prometheus Workspace: Select the required Prometheus workspace.
   • API key: Specify the contents of the sa-key.json file you got earlier.

5. Click Install.

6. Wait for the application to change its status to Deployed.

7. Connect to the Grafana dashboard:

   1. Install kubectl and set it up for working with the created cluster.

   2. Get the name of the pod with the running Grafana application:

      kubectl get pods --namespace <application_namespace> | grep grafana
      

   3. Configure grafana service port forwarding to the local computer:

      kubectl port-forward --namespace <application_namespace> <Grafana_pod_name> 8080:3000
      

      If you close the terminal window or abort the command, the port forwarding will get stopped.

   4. In your browser, open the Grafana dashboard at http://localhost:8080.

   5. Sign in using the admin username and prom-operator password.

• Remote storage of Prometheus metrics in Yandex Monitoring

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