prometheus-configuration

# Prometheus Configuration Complete guide to Prometheus setup, metric collection, scrape configuration, and recording rules. ## Purpose Configure Prometheus for comprehensive metric collection, alerting, and monitoring of infrastructure and applications. ## When to Use - Set up Prometheus monitoring - Configure metric scraping - Create recording rules - Design alert rules - Implement service discovery ## Prometheus Architecture ``` ┌──────────────┐ │ Applications │ ← Instrumented with client libraries └──────┬───────┘ │ /metrics endpoint ↓ ┌──────────────┐ │ Prometheus │ ← Scrapes metrics periodically │ Server │ └──────┬───────┘ │ ├─→ AlertManager (alerts) ├─→ Grafana (visualization) └─→ Long-term storage (Thanos/Cortex) ``` ## Installation ### Kubernetes with Helm ```bash helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts helm repo update helm install prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack \ --namespace monitoring \ --create-namespace \ --set prometheus.prometheusSpec.retention=30d \ --set prometheus.prometheusSpec.storageVolumeSize=50Gi ``` ### Docker Compose ```yaml version: "3.8" services: prometheus: image: prom/prometheus:latest ports: - "9090:9090" volumes: - ./prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml - prometheus-data:/prometheus command: - "--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml" - "--stora...