Grafana and Prometheus
As an out-of-the-box component of the control plane, Grafana provides dashboard insights for registered running services. Grafana enables drilling down to the service-level pods and container details. Some of those metrics are top-line, deployment, pod, and Linkerd health.
Prometheus is the backend monitoring solution that collects and stores all Linkerd telemetry metrics for services that are enabled for monitoring. It is also part of the control plane and collects data that's used by the CLI, the Linkerd dashboard, and Grafana.
The proxy exposes a /metrics endpoint for Prometheus to scrape on port 4191. This is scraped every 10 seconds. These metrics are then available to all the other Linkerd components, such as ...
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