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The combination of Prometheus, Grafana, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/production-grade-kubernetes-monitoring-with-prometheus-grafana-and-kube-state-metrics-hdukjp3rk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hdUkjp3Rk.png og:image:alt: Production-Grade Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and kube-state-metrics og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Production-Grade Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and kube-state-metrics **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 7 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Building a production-grade Kubernetes monitoring stack requires more than just CPU and memory metrics. The combination of Prometheus, Grafana, and kube-state-metrics provides two complementary views: resource metrics (CPU, memory, network) and state metrics (pod phases, deployment replica counts, HPA status). kube-state-metrics is often overlooked but is critical for detecting issues like CrashLoopBackOff pods or unavailable deployment replicas that don't show up in infrastructure graphs. The post covers dashboard design for different audiences (platform teams, app teams, leadership), actionable alerting beyond CPU thresholds, best practices like label standardization and monitoring the monitoring stack, and integration with long-term storage solutions like Thanos or Grafana Mimir. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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