Hands-on Lab·Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate
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.
Observability Guide 40 of 46 Beginner
- Kubernetes1.36.4
- Chartkube-prometheus-stack 88.5.3
- Prometheus Operatorv0.93.1
- TimeAbout 13 min
- Reviewed22 August 2026
Written against the versions above. Alert names come from kube-prometheus-stack and change between chart versions. The counts are from this cluster.
| Server Name | IP Address | OS | Roles | CPU | RAM | HDD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CKA1001 | 192.168.0.175 | Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | Control Plane Node | 2 Core | 4 GB | 50 GB |
| CKA1001-NODE01 | 192.168.0.176 | Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | Worker Node | 2 Core | 4 GB | 50 GB |
Before you start
- kube-prometheus-stack installed with
grafana.enabled=true, which is the chart default.
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It is running and reachable in-cluster
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Dashboards are ConfigMaps