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Visualizing metrics with Prometheus and Grafana

Visualizing metrics with Prometheus and Grafana - Kubernetes Tutorial

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Visualizing metrics with Prometheus and Grafana

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- [Instructor] Visualizing metrics helps us see what's happening with our services in real time, so we can spot performance issues and fix them fast. Prometheus and Grafana are two open-source tools that help us keep track of this metrics in our Istio service mesh. Here is how they work. Prometheus collects and stores metrics about our services. It generates data like traffic, errors, and response times. Grafana helps us visualize this data by turning it into graphs and dashboards. It makes it easier to see what's happening with our services. Istio gives us some really important metrics to help us keep an eye on our services. This includes latency, which shows how quickly your services are responding to requests. Traffic, which tells you how much demand your services are handling. Errors, so you know how often things are going wrong. And saturation, which shows how close your services are to being overloaded. Together, this metrics gives you a clear picture of how your system is…

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