Lab Overview

Prometheus and Grafana are two powerful open source tools widely used in the monitoring and visualization of metrics in cloud native environments. They serve complementary roles: Prometheus is primarily used for metrics collection and alerting, while Grafana is leveraged for visualizing the data collected by Prometheus. Let’s explore both tools, including how they work together to provide a comprehensive monitoring solution.

Ensure you have an Ubuntu 20.04 host. You can follow the previous lab to provision a virtual machine for yourself.