Prometheus Operator
Prometheus has it's own kubernetes operator, which makes it simple to install with helm, and enables users to configure and manage instances of Prometheus using simple declarative configuration that will, in response, create, configure, and manage Prometheus monitoring instances.
Once installed the Prometheus Operator provides the following features:
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Create/Destroy: Easily launch a Prometheus instance for your Kubernetes namespace, a specific application or team easily using the Operator.
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Simple Configuration: Configure the fundamentals of Prometheus like versions, persistence, retention policies, and replicas from a native Kubernetes resource.
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Target Services via Labels: Automatically generate monitoring target configurations based on familiar Kubernetes label queries; no need to learn a Prometheus specific configuration language.
How it works⚑
The core idea of the Operator is to decouple deployment of Prometheus instances from the configuration of which entities they are monitoring.
The Operator acts on the following custom resource definitions (CRDs):
- Prometheus: Defines the desired Prometheus deployment. The Operator ensures at all times that a deployment matching the resource definition is running. This entails aspects like the data retention time, persistent volume claims, number of replicas, the Prometheus version, and Alertmanager instances to send alerts to.
- ServiceMonitor: Specifies how metrics can be retrieved from a set of services exposing them in a common way. The Operator configures the Prometheus instance to monitor all services covered by included ServiceMonitors and keeps this configuration synchronized with any changes happening in the cluster.
- PrometheusRule: Defines a desired Prometheus rule file, which can be loaded by a Prometheus instance containing Prometheus alerting and recording rules.
- Alertmanager: Defines a desired Alertmanager deployment. The Operator ensures at all times that a deployment matching the resource definition is running.
