How To Setup Grafana On Kubernetes

Grafana is an open-source lightweight dashboard tool. It can be integrated with many data sources like Prometheus, AWS cloud watch, Stackdriver, etc. Running Grafana on Kubernetes

When Grafana is used with Prometheus, it caused PromQL to query metrics from Prometheus

In our previous posts, we have looked at the following.

1. Setup Prometheus on Kubernetes
2. Setup Kube State Metrics
3. Setup alert manager on Kubernetes

This tutorial explains how to run Grafana on Kubernetes cluster. Using Grafana you can simplify Kubernetes monitoring dashboards from Prometheus metrics.

Grafana Kubernetes Manifests

All the Kubernetes manifests (YAML files) used in this tutorial are hosted on Github as well. You can clone it and use it for the setup.

git clone https://github.com/bibinwilson/kubernetes-grafana.git

Deploy Grafana On Kubernetes

Let’s look at the Grafana setup in detail.

Step 1: Create file named grafana-datasource-config.yaml

vi grafana-datasource-config.yaml

Copy the following contents.