Monitoring Stack Deployer

This skill provides automated assistance for monitoring stack deployer tasks.

Overview

Deploys monitoring stacks (Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog) including collectors, scraping config, dashboards, and alerting rules for production systems.

Prerequisites

Before using this skill, ensure:

Instructions

1. **Select Platform**: Choose Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, or hybrid approach

2. **Deploy Collectors**: Install exporters and agents on monitored systems

3. **Configure Scraping**: Define metric collection endpoints and intervals

4. **Set Up Storage**: Configure retention policies and data compaction

5. **Create Dashboards**: Build visualization panels for key metrics

6. **Define Alerts**: Create alerting rules with appropriate thresholds

7. **Test Monitoring**: Verify metrics flow and alert triggering

Output

**Prometheus + Grafana (Kubernetes):**

```yaml

{baseDir}/monitoring/prometheus.yaml

Overview

This skill provides automated assistance for the described functionality.

Examples

Example usage patterns will be demonstrated in context.

apiVersion: v1

kind: ConfigMap

metadata:

name: prometheus-config

data:

prometheus.yml: |

global:

scrape_interval: 15s

evaluation_interval: 15s

scrape_configs:

- job_name: 'kubernetes-pods'

kubernetes_sd_configs:

- role: pod

relabel_configs:

- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io_scrape]

action: keep

regex: true

---

apiVersion: apps/v1

kind: Deployment

metadata:

name: prometheus

spec:

replicas: 1

template:

spec:

containers:

- name: prometheus

image: prom/prometheus:latest

args:

- '--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml'

- '--storage.tsdb.retention.time=30d'

ports:

- containerPort: 9090

```

**Grafana Dashboard Configuration:**

```json

{

"dashboard": {

"title": "Application Metrics",

"panels": [

{

"title": "CPU Usage",

"type": "graph",

"targets": [

{

"expr": "rate(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total[5m])"

}

]

}

]

}

}

```

Error Handling

**Metrics Not Appearing**

**High Cardinality**

**Alert Not Firing**

**Dashboard Load Failure**

Examples

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