Using Jsonnet to Package Together Dashboards, Alerts and Exporters
summary
Packages dashboards, alerts and exporters as reusable Jsonnet Monitoring Mixins that render into Prometheus alerting rules, Grafana JSON and YAML. Uses Jsonnet features (merge operator, hidden _config, string substitution) so label selectors are injected at render time rather than baked in. Provides a simple package manager (JB) that vendors mixins into a vendor/ dir and a manifest command to emit dashboards, recording rules and configmaps. Works with Kubernetes (ksonnet/kson) and non‑Kube targets like Consul and Cassandra.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:20Sharing Dashboards
- 2:02Common Issues
- 2:43Takehome
- 3:51What we want
- 4:48Configurable extensible
- 6:10Best config language
- 8:36Jsonnet
- 9:19JSON
- 15:12Config
- 17:13Prometheus Alert Definition
- 17:32Download Install and Stay Up to Date
- 17:50Jsonnet Bundler
- 18:32Installing Packages
- 19:31Config Override
- 20:01Rendering
- 20:18Mix Tool
- 20:43Deployment agnostic
- 21:00Demo
- 24:38CaseOnIt
- 25:20Prometheus Mixins
- 26:16Monitoring Mixins
- 27:47Playbooks
- 28:17Shoutouts
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