How I Set Up Prometheus and Grafana Monitoring on AKS from Scratch

Setting up a monitoring stack in Kubernetes can be overwhelming if you're doing it for the first time. When I started working with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), I realized I needed better visibility into pod and node metrics — that’s when I turned to Prometheus and Grafana. In this post, I’ll walk you through the exact steps I took to get Prometheus and Grafana running on AKS, along with some lessons I learned along the way. ##

May 11, 2025 - 13:42
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How I Set Up Prometheus and Grafana Monitoring on AKS from Scratch

Setting up a monitoring stack in Kubernetes can be overwhelming if you're doing it for the first time. When I started working with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), I realized I needed better visibility into pod and node metrics — that’s when I turned to Prometheus and Grafana.

In this post, I’ll walk you through the exact steps I took to get Prometheus and Grafana running on AKS, along with some lessons I learned along the way.

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