Azure Prometheus Monitoring

understand how to activate azure prometheus monitoring, supporting your chosen monitoring system effective monitoring tools like prometheus are indispensable in today's dynamic cloud ecosystem azure integrates flawlessly with prometheus; setting it up has never been easier let's dive right in and set you up with prometheus on your azure cluster establishing a connection with azure cluster log in into your azure environment using either the azure shell or azure cli to effectively manage your cluster resources via azure shell, take a look at this step by step guide azure cloud shell overview https //docs microsoft com/en us/azure/cloud shell/overview prep your environment with azure cli begin by installing the azure cli here's a quick installation guide https //docs microsoft com/en us/cli/azure/install azure cli to get you started fire up the command line and execute az login to access your azure account if you don't have kubectl already, use the command az aks install cli to get it locally next, set up kubectl to interact seamlessly with your kubernetes cluster using this command az aks get credentials resource group myresourcegroup name myakscluster this ensures your cli is synced with your cluster credentials activating prometheus on azure begin by installing the helm package manager for kubernetes, the backbone for managing prometheus define the helm repo with this helm repo add prometheus community https //prometheus community github io/helm charts refresh with helm repo update for organized management, carve out a new namespace for prometheus using kubectl create namespace in this example, we've named it monitoring integrate prometheus using helm install prometheus prometheus community/prometheus namespace monitoring set alertmanager persistentvolume storageclass="default" set server persistentvolume storageclass="default" to get a live view of your prometheus dashboard within azure, utilize port forwarding kubectl port forward n monitoring prometheuspodname 9090