Grafana is the visualization half of what people often call the "prometheus grafana stack." kube-prometheus-stack ships with over 30 pre-built dashboards sourced from the kubernetes-mixin project, automatically loaded via ConfigMaps the moment the chart is installed — no manual dashboard building required to get useful visibility.
This category covers using and extending that Grafana layer: what the default dashboards show, how to add custom dashboards through ConfigMaps or the UI, and how to connect additional data sources alongside the built-in Prometheus connection.
Change the default Grafana password, expose Grafana through Ingress, NodePort, or port-forward, and connect OAuth/OIDC/LDAP authentication in kube-prometheus-stack.
Read ArticleMaster the 30+ pre-built Grafana dashboards in kube-prometheus-stack. Learn to monitor Kubernetes clusters, customize dashboards, and build production-ready monitoring views.
Read ArticleYes — set grafana.enabled: false in values.yaml to skip deploying it entirely and point Prometheus's data at any other visualization tool you already run.
Yes, though edits to the default ConfigMap-sourced dashboards are overwritten on the next Helm upgrade — save customized versions as new dashboards instead.
