Setting up Grafana

Before jumping into how we install Grafana, there are a few prerequisites that we require. We should have both Kubernetes and Istio version 0.7 up and running, and we need to deploy an application for monitoring purposes. We also need to have the Prometheus server running on same box for service discovery. Our sample architecture will look as follows:

Our target nodes could be anything from application servers, API Servers, databases, or nodes. Prometheus will help us to discover these metrics and pull the data, as we have seen previously. Here, we are going to use the Grafana Web UI to visualize a dashboard and graphs: ...

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