Grafana

Grafana is installed using the grafana operator which manages the grafana instance, dashboards and datasources using CRDs. CRDs API reference: https://grafana-operator.github.io/grafana-operator/docs/api/

It runs as a deployment:


kubectl -n platform-monitoring get deploy grafana-operator
kubectl -n platform-monitoring get deploy platform-grafana-deployment

Dashboards

Dashboards are automatically synced by the operator. You can use the grafanadashboard resources to check its status and when it was last synced.


kubectl -n platform-monitoring get grafanadashboard
NAME                    NO MATCHING INSTANCES   LAST RESYNC   AGE
bastion                                         42m           7h43m
continuous-load                                 2m17s         7h43m
kubernetes-apiserver                            42m           7h43m
[...]

When exporting dashboard json from Grafana, make sure special characters are replaced as follows

replace {{ target }} with {{ "{{" }} target {{ "}}" }}
replace $somevar with ${somevar}

Datasources

Prometheus: points to the prometheus frontend to access all dashboard metrics
Alertmanager: points to the managed alertmanager to manage silences, view firing alerts, contact points, and notification policies