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Install Grafana with Helm Guide

This document provides steps to deploy Grafana on an EKS cluster using Helm for visualization of Prometheus metrics. It includes adding the Grafana Helm chart repository, installing Grafana with a custom YAML config file and persistence settings, retrieving the Grafana load balancer URL, and links to example Grafana dashboards for Kubernetes metrics. It also provides commands to uninstall Prometheus and Grafana.

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Install Grafana with Helm Guide

This document provides steps to deploy Grafana on an EKS cluster using Helm for visualization of Prometheus metrics. It includes adding the Grafana Helm chart repository, installing Grafana with a custom YAML config file and persistence settings, retrieving the Grafana load balancer URL, and links to example Grafana dashboards for Kubernetes metrics. It also provides commands to uninstall Prometheus and Grafana.

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1. Copy paste the following in a YAML file, name it grafana.

yaml
datasources:
datasources.yaml:
apiVersion: 1
datasources:
- name: Prometheus
type: prometheus
url: http://prometheus-server.prometheus.svc.cluster.local
access: proxy
isDefault: true

2. Grab Grafana Helm charts


helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts

3. Install Grafana
kubectl create namespace grafana

helm install grafana grafana/grafana \


--namespace grafana \
--set persistence.storageClassName="gp2" \
--set persistence.enabled=true \
--set adminPassword='EKS!sAWSome' \
--values grafana.yaml \
--set service.type=LoadBalancer

4. Check if Grafana is deployed properly


kubectl get all -n grafana

5. Get Grafana ELB url


export ELB=$(kubectl get svc -n grafana grafana -o
jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].hostname}')

echo "http://$ELB"

6. When logging in, use username "admin" and get password by running the following:
kubectl get secret --namespace grafana grafana -o jsonpath="{.data.admin-password}"
| base64 --decode ; echo

7. Grafana Dashboards for K8s:


https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards?
dataSource=prometheus&direction=desc&orderBy=reviewsCount

8. Uninstall Prometheus and Grafana


helm uninstall prometheus --namespace prometheus
helm uninstall grafana --namespace grafana

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