Monitoring Stack

The monitoring stack provides real-time visibility into cluster health and performance.

Namespace: monitoring
Chart: kube-prometheus-stack

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1. Overview

Cluster health and performance metrics are aggregated via the Prometheus stack. Performance tuning is applied for ARM64 architecture consistency.

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2. Components

• Prometheus: Time-series database for metric collection.
• Grafana: Dashboard visualization for infra metrics.
• Alertmanager: Notification routing based on defined alert rules.

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3. Configuration and Deployment

Implementation procedures:

1. Installation: Managed via ArgoCD using the standard Helm repository.
2. Persistence: Longhorn volumes are utilized for historical data storage.
3. Dashboards: Pre-configured dashboards for Node Exporter and K8s resources are imported.

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4. Operational Maintenance

1. Rule Management: Alerting rules are updated via GitOps.
2. Metric Retention: Standard 15-day retention is enforced.
3. Alerting: Critical infrastructure alerts are routed to Discord.