When using Prometheus monitoring stack, Alertmanager is an essential part of the monitoring, while responsible to send alerts. I explain here how I manage, the respective configuration using Terraform.
In one of my last post I talked about Grafana, as a visualization tool, we also need a datasource. Prometheus is such a data tool and usually comes bundled with Grafana. So let's have a quick look at what it is and how it works.
A recently I introduced you to Grafana Cloud. Some of you might know what Grafana is and what it offers. For the ones who don't, let me introduce it.
If you have servers you definitively want to collect logs in a central place and store them for some time, so you can investigate what happens in case of issues. I personally rely on logz.io, but Grafana Cloud looks like a promising alternative
Installing monitoring and configuration with Rancher is quite easy, but in combination wit alerting for MS Teams some guidance might be helpful. I guide you trough the process of the complete installation and configuration
If you have servers you definitively want to collect logs in a central place and store them for some time, so you can investigate what happens in case of issues. I personally rely on logz.io