I need to know the exact difference between container insights and Azure managed Promotheus and grafana in azure kubernates cluster

Question

I am unable to figureout the exact difference between container insights, promotheus and grafana, and if i need to integrate azure managed promotheus, in my .net core app(POD), what changes i need to make in my application to get metrics. Can any help me out, Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hello Hemanth Kumar Reddy Rachala,

Thanks for your question

Container Insights is a feature of Azure Monitor specifically designed for containerized applications. It provides performance monitoring for container workloads deployed to AKS.

See:

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and Azure Managed Prometheus is the managed version of this service in Azure.

Grafana is an open-source analytics and monitoring platform, and Azure Managed Grafana is the managed version in Azure.

To integrate you will generally need to expose your metrics. Use a library like prometheus-net to expose metrics. and add annotations to your Kubernetes deployment to enable Prometheus scraping:

please take a look at:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/azure-samples/dotnetapp-azure-prometheus/dotnet-azure-prometheus/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/containers/container-insights-prometheus-logs?source=recommendations

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Abiola