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title: GCP Cloud
slug: gcp-cloud
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createdAt: 2026-05-28T13:01:34.937Z
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Harness the power of Prometheus within the Google Cloud Platform. By following these user-centric steps, you can easily monitor your cloud infrastructure's performance and health. 

# Prerequisites

- Ensure you have `helm` installed on your system.

# Setting Up the environment

- Start by adding the public Kubernetes chart repository to your Helm configuration with: `helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com`.
- Considering organization and ease of management, let's create a separate namespace named 'monitoring' for Prometheus: `kubectl create ns monitoring`.
- With the namespace ready, it's time to deploy the Prometheus Operator chart: `helm install prometheus stable/prometheus-operator --namespace monitoring`.
- To confirm everything's in place, execute the following command: `kubectl --namespace monitoring get pods -l "release=prometheus"`.

# Prometheus dashboard

With Prometheus now up and running, it is time to dive into its comprehensive dashboard:

- Use the Kubernetes proxy to access the Prometheus dashboard securely. This method ensures you're tunneling your connection securely through the Kubernetes API server with the following command: `kubectl port-forward -n monitoring prometheus-prometheus-prometheus-oper-prometheus-0 9090`.
- Once a secure connection is established, you can access the dashboard.