Monitoring

Overview In the previous post, we built an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Helm chart-based project templates and ArgoCD ApplicationSet. This post covers how to install Prometheus and Grafana to collect and visualize metrics, and install Loki to centrally collect and analyze logs, building an integrated monitoring environment for the homelab Kubernetes cluster. The Need for Monitoring When operating a homelab Kubernetes cluster, you need to periodically check node and pod status, resource usage like CPU and memory, whether applications are operating normally, and log data for identifying causes when problems occur. To visually monitor this information, the following tools are used. ...