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Grafana Dashboards for Kubernetes

The chart ships Grafana already pointed at Prometheus, with 29 dashboards delivered as ConfigMaps and loaded by a sidecar. Knowing that mechanism is how you add your own - and why editing one in the UI does not last.

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Written against the versions above. Alert names come from kube-prometheus-stack and change between chart versions. The counts are from this cluster.

Alertmanager and Grafana come with kube-prometheus-stack. Neither is exposed - both are queried from a Pod in the same namespace.
Server NameIP AddressOSRolesCPURAMHDD
CKA1001192.168.0.175Ubuntu 26.04 LTSControl Plane Node2 Core4 GB50 GB
CKA1001-NODE01192.168.0.176Ubuntu 26.04 LTSWorker Node2 Core4 GB50 GB

Before you start

  1. It is running and reachable in-cluster

  2. Dashboards are ConfigMaps

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