Reading documentation and actually walking through a working setup are two different things. This category is reserved for guided, hands-on tutorials that take a specific outcome — monitoring your first custom application, building a Grafana dashboard from scratch, wiring up an alert end to end — and walk through it step by step.
Where the other categories on this site explain how a component works, tutorials here are meant to be followed along with a real cluster open in another window.
Each tutorial in this category assumes only a working Kubernetes cluster and Helm installed — no prior kube-prometheus-stack experience — and moves through numbered, copy-pasteable steps rather than abstract explanation. They're a good starting point if you learn by doing, and a useful refresher even if you've already read the more reference-style guides elsewhere on this site.
A hands-on, step-by-step kube-prometheus-stack tutorial — install the chart, deploy a sample app, scrape it with a ServiceMonitor, build a Grafana panel, and add an alert rule.
Read ArticleYes, though it doesn't need to be a production cluster — any cluster running Kubernetes v1.19+ with Helm installed works, including local options like minikube or k3s.
Yes — commands and manifests are checked against current chart behavior and updated when something material changes, like a renamed values.yaml key.
