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Deploy Prometheus to gain observability
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Description

We want the service mesh to be observable.

Kubernetes, Calico (the network data plane for our service mesh), Kuma can send metrics to Prometheus:

Plan is to:

  • deploy Prometheus on Kubernetes cluster
  • enable Kuma metrics policy
  • send Calico metrics
  • send Kubernetes metrics
  • publish Grafana dashboards

Event Timeline

Independently of the 2020 plan for a service mesh, we're going to deploy Prometheus right now to gain observability on currently deployed services.

I've did some experiments this week-end on WindRiver, it's straightforward enough to deploy to be a big win.

Prometheus is available, regardless of the initial goal to offer a service mesh on Kubernetes.

It correctly scrapes data since July and Grafana can connect to it without any issue.

It's documented at https://agora.nasqueron.org/Operations_grimoire/Prometheus.