Consul is a service discovery tool for allowing services or VMs to be registered and then provide dns and http interfaces to query on the state of registered services/VMs. Prometheus is a pull based model monitoring tool by getting the metrics data via querying each targets defined in the configuration. Start Consul …

Introduction This article will configure grafana behind the nginx server. Even though Grafana Labs already has the tutorial, I still run into some bottlenecks. In case you have the same situation, this article will mainly focus on some of the key points in these steps. Grafana config I have the Grafana/Prometheus stack, grafani.ini as a volume mounted to /etc/grafana/grafana.ini volumes: - ./grafana/grafana.ini:/etc/grafana/grafana.ini

In the last post, I had explained from Azure console, how to generate a CA trusted wildcard certificate and deployed to Application Gateway. This article will explain how to use ARM(Azure Resource Manager) template to automate the process. Here we assume that you have the certificate (pfx format) and password…

If you want to run a service accessible over https you’ll need certificates. One difference between Azure and AWS is Azure don’t have certificate manager (ACM in AWS world) yet(at least till today). …