PCF Platform Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
summary
Northern Trust describes a production monitoring stack built with Prometheus + Grafana + Alertmanager deployed via BOSH deployment across five PCF foundations monitoring ~750 microservices and ~250 Spring Boot developers. The setup collects time series via exporters, dashboards in Grafana, and routed/deduplicated alerts to Slack and email. Custom alerts live in custom.rules file. Teams report faster capacity planning, several automated deployments per foundation, steep initial docs learning curve, and missing Auth for Alertmanager.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction to PCF monitoring
- 1:28Why Prometheus for PCF
- 3:35Prometheus architecture overview
- 6:48Prometheus BOSH deployment
- 9:59Alert Manager notifications
- 11:03Custom Prometheus alerts
- 14:16Alert Manager limitations
- 14:57Deciphering Prometheus metrics
- 17:48Grafana dashboard customization
- 18:10CF cells capacity monitoring
- 19:14Storage allocation insights
- 20:20MySQL table statistics
- 21:46Prometheus improvements needed
- 23:53Final recommendations
- 24:59Q&A session
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