Monitoring

How a team watches its systems every day, and how a tester watches the server while a load test runs. Concepts first, then one shared setup of Grafana, Alloy, Prometheus and Loki next to the Playground, then each use hands-on.

Important: This module is in progress, written against Grafana 13.2.3, Alloy v1.20.1, Prometheus v3.15.0, Loki 3.7.8 and k6 v2.2.0. Every config file lives in monitoring/sample/.

⬇ Download the monitoring sample (.zip)

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Page	Written	Validated	Screenshots
1. Monitoring in General	Yes	N/A	N/A
2. Everyday Monitoring	Yes	N/A	N/A
3. Monitoring During a Performance Test	Yes	N/A	N/A
4. The Grafana Stack	Yes	N/A	N/A
5. Set Up Prometheus	Yes	Yes	No
6. Set Up Loki	Yes	Yes	No
7. Set Up Alloy	Yes	Yes	No
8. Set Up Grafana	Yes	Yes	No
9. Dashboards and Alerts	Yes	Yes	No
10. Watch a Load Test	Yes	Yes	No
11. What Needs the Dev Team	Yes	N/A	N/A
99. Future / To Explore	Yes	N/A	N/A

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#	Topic	Description
1	Monitoring in General	The mental model, metrics vs logs, and why it matters to the business
2	Everyday Monitoring	Always-on dashboards, the four golden signals and alerts
3	Monitoring During a Performance Test	Why the server tells you why, what to watch, baselines
4	The Grafana Stack	What Alloy, Prometheus, Loki and Grafana each do
5	Set Up Prometheus	Start it next to the playground
6	Set Up Loki	Start it next to the playground
7	Set Up Alloy	Collect container metrics, logs and Postgres stats
8	Set Up Grafana	Connect Prometheus and Loki
9	Dashboards and Alerts	An everyday dashboard and one alert that fires
10	Watch a Load Test	k6 and the server on one dashboard
11	What Needs the Dev Team	What a tester cannot see alone, and how to ask
99	Future / To Explore	Traces, Mimir, Grafana Cloud, real servers

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