Cloudwatch

Route53 health checks Although we have already monitoring with Prometheus in our Kubernetes cluster, we want to additionally monitor our customer systems from outside. This means that, in contrast to Prometheus monitoring, additional components for routing traffic into our Kubernetes cluster will be checked. In our AWS environment, this additional components will be checked: Route53 the Application Load Balancer the corresponding certificates at the Load Balancer Target Groups Ingress Controller in the cluster....

This post describes the setup of a dead man’s switch for Prometheus / Alertmanager in a kubernetes cluster. A primary goal of the monitoring and alerting system is to generate alerts as soon as possible when problems occur, so administrators can react promptly and the impact on users can be limited. But what happens, if the monitoring system itself is impaired? In case of an outage of the kubernetes cluster where Prometheus is installed, it is highly probable that no alerts are generated....