Steps to monitor third-party apps using Prometheus Exporter by Eldar Aliiev
Channel: Engineering Community
Date: 2022-02-11

During the session we have covered following things:

Discussed importance of monitoring.
Did the overview of the existing metrics collecting/storing solutions.
Built monitoring actions checklist.
Meet with Prometheus metrics standard, format and metrics type.
Reviewed different monitoring architectures with Prometheus for applications which is running in Kubernetes cluster.
Developed basic Prometheus exporter with Python.
Reviewed deployment of Prometheus with prometheus-operator.
Deployed custom exporter to Kubernetes cluster.
Implemented metrics collection for the custom exporter with ServiceMonitor resource.