Prometheus Installation with Helm

External

• https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/kube-prometheus-stack
• https://github.com/prometheus-operator/kube-prometheus

Internal

• Prometheus Operations

Overview

Installs Prometheus, Grafana, etc.

Install

Install the "kube-prometheus-stack" Helm chart.

Various walkthroughs seem to prefer to name the Prometheus namespace "prom". We shall use this conventions.

helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/
helm repo update

kubectl create ns prom
helm install -n prom prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack

Optionally, perform the post-install steps.

Post-Install

• Expose Prometheus console in Kubernetes
• Expose Grafana locally over a LoadBalancer service
• Recover (or change) Grafana password
• Set Grafana light theme

Uninstall

helm uninstall -n prom prometheus