Implementing container monitoring

Once your metrics are published to Prometheus, implementing your monitoring strategy involves combining the right charts into relevant dashboards. This task is very business- and application-specific and, as such, hard it is hard to give prescriptive guidance on how to do it. But one Grafana feature can help you to start from a good place and customize from there as you see fit: the capability to export and import dashboards.

You can easily export your dashboards and make them available to other teams in your organization or make them publicly available to the community. There are plenty of dashboards available for you to use at https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/URL. We will check some of the most useful if you plan to monitor your containerized application.

First, to import a new dashboard, on the AMG console, you need to navigate to the Create | Import menu on the left-hand side, as you can see in the following figure:

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