Abhishek Kumar

May 6

Monitoring multiple AKS Clusters using a single Thanos instance

This is yet another story on the monitoring aspect of the DevOps journey. In this story, we shall use Prometheus and Thanos to monitor applications deployed on Azure Kubernetes (AKS)across multiple clusters with a cost and effort-efficient approach. When it comes to monitoring for Kubernetes, the de-facto choice that really…

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Monitoring multiple AKS Clusters using a single Thanos instance

Apr 20

Integrating Prometheus with Azure Monitor to scrape Kafka Metrics

As we all know, Azure Monitor is an offering by Azure for monitoring applications hosted on Azure. One of its components is Azure Container Insights which is designed to monitor the performance of container workloads deployed on any of the Azure Container Solutions like Azure Container Instance, Azure Kubernetes (AKS)…

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Integrating Prometheus with Azure Monitor to scrape Kafka Metrics

Mar 30

My journey to DevOps

DevOps has become the buzzword for most of the folks in the IT industry. With the Cloud and Container technologies becoming ubiquitous, this profile has emerged as the most sought-after profile in recent years. Let us try to understand the roles and responsibilities of a DevOps engineer. It can be…

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Mar 29

Implementing Logging using Promtail Loki and Grafana on multi-cluster Azure Kubernetes Service Setup

In this article, I would like to write about how to use the famous PLG (Promtail/Loki/Grafana) Stack as a logging solution for applications hosted on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Prerequisites: Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), Helm, Promtail/Loki/Grafana Promtail: Client that collects logs using Prometheus under the hood. ( In K8 terms, these…

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Implementing Logging using Promtail Loki and Grafana on multi-cluster Azure Kubernetes Service…