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Introduction to DevOps with Kubernetes

You're reading from   Introduction to DevOps with Kubernetes Build scalable cloud-native applications using DevOps patterns created with Kubernetes

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789808285
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Süleyman Akbaş Süleyman Akbaş
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Onur Yılmaz Onur Yılmaz
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Introduction to DevOps 2. Chapter 2: Introduction to Microservices and Containers FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Introduction to Kubernetes 4. Chapter 4: Creating a Kubernetes Cluster 5. Chapter 5: Deploy an Application to Kubernetes 6. Chapter 6: Configuration and Storage Management in Kubernetes 7. Chapter 7: Updating and Scaling an Application in Kubernetes 8. Chapter 8: Troubleshooting Applications in Kubernetes 9. Chapter 9: Monitoring Applications in Kubernetes Appendix

Monitoring Applications in Kubernetes

In this section, we will explore how to monitor infrastructures and applications by using the most commonly used tools in Kubernetes. We will also discover how we can expose our custom metrics from these applications and set up alert notifications so that we will have a fully capable monitoring system.

We will start with Prometheus as a tool for collecting metrics from a cluster and Alertmanager as an alert notifier. Then, we'll continue with Grafana as the visualizer tool for the metrics obtained by Prometheus. Finally, we'll complete the system by configuring a Slack channel to receive these alert notifications.

Prometheus

Prometheus is an open source monitoring and alerting system. It periodically collects real-time data from the configured applications and stores them in a database in timely order, also called time series data. Prometheus has a querying language called Prometheus Query Language (PromQL), which enables the...

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