On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 4:59 PM George <[email protected]> wrote: > Stretching my question a bit here... > > Most of the examples of deploying thanos assume a Prometheus on K8S (which > would be great option down the road once we have a management K8s cluster), > as I don't want to run my management environment on the K8s cluster that I > also want to monitor. >
There is nothing wrong with running monitoring inside the Kubernetes cluster. This is very common and normal. > > Don't see allot for deploying Thanos on a Linux host for Prometheus, > although there is the one example of simply building the Thanos executable > from the Go code. > ... or downloading the tar ball, looking inside this is a single > executable. > > ... this example also does not mention if you are building the Thanos > sidecar, Thanos Query or the Thanos Store component... assuming it builds > the one executable that can do all 3... and is then configured. What am I > missing here. > Lots of people have built Chef, Ansible, automation for doing non-K8s deploys. We built our own for Chef, but are planning to move away from that and move it to Kubernetes. > > G > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 4:17 PM George <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Doing some more googling as we're speaking. >> >> Looks like each Prometheus server gets the Thanos side car, and then >> Thanos Query is deployed onto my Grafana server/s, >> >> Grafana talks to Thanos Query (locally), thats configured to know about >> all my Thanos side cars + Thanos Store for aging out older metrics to S3 >> buckets. >> >> G >> >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 4:11 PM Ben Kochie <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> There is no "Thanos Server". There are a number of components that are >>> deployed in different places. I suggest you review the official Thanos docs. >>> >>> You only need Thanos Query deployed where Grafana is. Thanos Query talks >>> directly to the sidecars and optionally store servers. >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 4:07 PM George <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Ben >>>> >>>> So would you recommend we deploy one Thanos server/deployment per DC. >>>> to which the local Grafana server then connects. >>>> >>>> That Thanos then talks to all local and remote (2nd DC) prometheus >>>> servers. >>>> >>>> G >>>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 4:04 PM Ben Kochie <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> This sounds very much like a standard multi-DC / multi-subnet >>>>> Prometheus+Thanos setup. >>>>> >>>>> Basically what you have is a Thanos Query front-end, that is >>>>> configured to connect to all of the sidecars. It can query data from all >>>>> Prometheus servers simultaneously. >>>>> >>>>> Grafana is configured to talk to Thanos Query, so you can get all data >>>>> in one view. >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 3:44 PM George <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all >>>>>> >>>>>> Question... in our current management tool set we have a proxy >>>>>> server on each of the subnets that is responsible for collecting the >>>>>> performance metrics of all servers on that subnet, >>>>>> >>>>>> those values are then send to a large management server where >>>>>> everything is submitted. >>>>>> >>>>>> in the Prometheus architecture the server itself collects the data >>>>>> and stores it in the local TSB. >>>>>> >>>>>> We also have 2 DC's, thinking is to deploy prometheus servers in each >>>>>> of the DC's, responsible for the local servers. >>>>>> >>>>>> My thinking is to deploy a prometheus server on each of our subnets, >>>>>> and then a Thanos side car on the prometheus server. >>>>>> >>>>>> In this configuration... does the various Thanos deployed get told >>>>>> about each other, so that they can display all the metrics of all the >>>>>> prometheus servers as one large deployment ? >>>>>> >>>>>> For Grafana, at the moment it's pointed at my prometheus server ip >>>>>> address and a port, how does this change, or does it not, and Thanos >>>>>> inserts itself in the middle of that path. >>>>>> >>>>>> please comment. >>>>>> >>>>>> G >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You have the obligation to inform one honestly of the risk, and as a >>>>>> person >>>>>> you are committed to educate yourself to the total risk in any >>>>>> activity! >>>>>> >>>>>> Once informed & totally aware of the risk, >>>>>> every fool has the right to kill or injure themselves as they see fit! >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "Prometheus Users" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CALw5Ujv24MAYfXFojRXd%2BSDd8LS%3D68GbsPQb4d-NmE3pnWLv_A%40mail.gmail.com >>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CALw5Ujv24MAYfXFojRXd%2BSDd8LS%3D68GbsPQb4d-NmE3pnWLv_A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>>> . >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You have the obligation to inform one honestly of the risk, and as a >>>> person >>>> you are committed to educate yourself to the total risk in any activity! >>>> >>>> Once informed & totally aware of the risk, >>>> every fool has the right to kill or injure themselves as they see fit! >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> You have the obligation to inform one honestly of the risk, and as a >> person >> you are committed to educate yourself to the total risk in any activity! >> >> Once informed & totally aware of the risk, >> every fool has the right to kill or injure themselves as they see fit! >> > > > -- > You have the obligation to inform one honestly of the risk, and as a person > you are committed to educate yourself to the total risk in any activity! > > Once informed & totally aware of the risk, > every fool has the right to kill or injure themselves as they see fit! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. 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