A set of USE Method dashboards for Grafana, using Prometheus as a backend. Use these dashboards if you want insight into the performance of your Kubernetes infrastructure. For more motivation, see "The RED Method: How to instrument your services" talk from CloudNativeCon Austin.
First you'll need jsonnet - on a Mac I recommend installing
it with brew. Once you have jsonnet installed, the dashboards can
be generated with the following command:
$ jsonnet -m . lib/to_json_files.jsonnet
The dashboards depend on a set of Prometheus recording rules, which can be generated with the following command:
$ jsonnet recording_rules.jsonnet >recording_rules.yaml
This generates JSON, but luckily JSON is a subset of YAML so Prometheus can use this file.
Alternatively, if you use ksonnet to generate your Kubernetes config, the dashboards can be included in a config map directly:
local k = import "ksonnet.beta.2/k8s.libsonnet",
dashboards = import "dashboards.jsonnet",
configMap = k.core.v1.configMap;
configMap.new() +
configMap.mixin.metadata.name("dashboards") +
configMap.data({[name]: std.toString(dashboards[name])
for name in std.objectFields(dashboards)})