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N. Sabharwal, P. PandeyMonitoring Microservices and Containerized Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6216-0_3

3. Getting Started with Prometheus and Alert Manager

Navin Sabharwal1  and Piyush Pandey2
(1)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
(2)
New Delhi, India
 
In this chapter, we will go through the Prometheus monitoring tool, including its architecture and deployment. We will also be installing Prometheus and Alert Manager on Kubernetes and integrating the two. The chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Overview of Prometheus

  • Architecture of Prometheus and Alert Manager

  • Prometheus and Alert Manager Setup and Configuration on Kubernetes Cluster

  • Integration of Prometheus and Alert manager

Overview of Prometheus

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