Prometheus and Graph Alerts, Grafana Notifications, Semaphores
Explore how to use Prometheus alerts and Grafana notifications to monitor Kubernetes clusters effectively. Learn the advantages of alerting at the data source, the role of semaphores for system awareness, and how graph alerts assist in identifying issues within your environment.
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Prometheus Alerts vs Grafana notifications #
Prometheus's Alerts and Grafana notifications serve the same purpose, even though we did not explore the latter. I’ll let you learn how Grafana notifications work on your own. Who knows? After the discussion that follows you might not even want to spend time with them.
Grafana notifications can be forwarded to different recipients in a similar manner as how Prometheus's alerts are forwarded with Alertmanager. However, there are a few things that make Grafana notifications less appealing.
If we can accomplish the same result with Prometheus's alerts as with Grafana alerts, there is a clear advantage with the former. If an ...