The Kubernetes Dashboard provides a convenient web interface for viewing cluster resources. However, if you are logged using a token tied to the ‘cluster-admin’ role, you will have privileges beyond what are typically necessary. In this article, I will show you how to create a ServiceAccount and ClusterRole with limited privileges that can be used … Kubernetes: accessing the Kubernetes Dashboard with least privilege
If your Grafana deployment is using a sidecar to watch for new dashboards defined as a ConfigMap, then adding a dashboard is a dynamic operation that can be done without even restarting the pod. If you have deployed the Prometheus/Grafana stack with kube-prometheus-stack, then you can check for the existence of the ‘grafana-sc-dashboard’ sidecar using: … Prometheus: adding a Grafana dashboard using a ConfigMap
The ElasticSearch stack (ELK) is popular open-source solution that serves as both repository and search interface for a wide range of applications including: log aggregation and analysis, analytics store, search engine, and document processing. Its standard web front-end, Kibana, is a great product for data exploration and dashboards. However, if you have multiple data sources … Grafana: Connecting to an ElasticSearch datasource