Deploying a monitoring stack (Prometheus and Grafana) on TKG v1.4 with External-DNS

Many customers who have deployed Tanzu Kubernetes would like to monitor activity on the cluster. In TKG v1.4, VMware provides all of the packages one would required to setup a full monitoring stack using Prometheus and Grafana. Prometheus records real-time metrics and Grafana provides charts, graphs, and alerts when connected to a supported data source, such as Prometheus. Prometheus has a dependency on an Ingress, which we will provide through the Contour controller package (which includes an Envoy Ingress). In fact, Prometheus leverages a special kind of Ingress called a HTTPProxy which is provided with Contour. We are also going…