How do I create dashboards for Azure AKS in Prometheus?

To create dashboards for Azure AKS using Prometheus, you'll need to set up Prometheus to scrape metrics from your AKS clusters and then visualize these metrics using tools like Grafana. Follow the steps below to get started:

Step 1: Install Prometheus on AKS

You can use Helm to install Prometheus on your Azure AKS cluster. Ensure you have Helm installed and configured.

helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts helm repo update helm install prometheus prometheus-community/prometheus

Step 2: Configure AKS to expose metrics

Make sure your application is exposing metrics in a format that Prometheus can scrape (e.g., via /metrics endpoint).

Step 3: Set up Grafana for dashboard visualization

Install Grafana using Helm and configure it to connect to the Prometheus data source.

helm install grafana grafana/grafana

Step 4: Create your dashboard

Once Grafana is up and running, log in and create dashboards to visualize the metrics collected by Prometheus. Use various panel types based on the metrics you want to display.

Example Dashboard Queries

sum(rate(http_requests_total[5m])) by (status)

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