installing prometheus in k8s cluster with helm

Prerequisite: A cluster with RBAC enabled. Have enough capacity in the cluster Install Helm:

kubectl create serviceaccount tiller --namespace kube-system
kubectl create clusterrolebinding tiller-rb --clusterrole=cluster-admin --serviceaccount=kube-system:tiller
helm init --service-account tiller

Get the values.yaml from here Edit some things that you want to tweak, for us, we change the CPU limit to a lower value. Then just install Prometheus:

helm install -f values.yaml --name prometheus stable/prometheus

Ideally, this should be installed in another namespace but we will keep it simple for now. After the installation you will have this new pods running in your default workspace:

• alertmanager
• kube-state-metrics
• node-exporter
• pushgateway
• prometheus-server

The server will automatically discover your cluster and you will have a whole bunch of metrics available, it can be overwhelming so don’t pay attention too much about it.

In the next post: We will configure alertmanager to send alerts for basic things like CPU, Memory and Disk usage. At least this is our initial goal why we want to use Prometheus.