Monitoring Cloud Foundry with Grafana and Prometheus - Architecture

Monitoring Cloud Foundry with Grafana and Prometheus involves collecting, storing, and visualizing metrics to enhance observability and manage the Cloud Foundry environment effectively.

1. Install and Configure Prometheus

• Set up Prometheus: Deploy Prometheus in Kubernetes, ensuring it has access to the Cloud Foundry metric endpoints.
• Scrape Cloud Foundry Metrics: Use the CF Exporter, Firehose Exporter or Nozzle Exporter to pull metrics from the Cloud Foundry. 

2. Install and Configure Thanos

• Thanos is an aggregator of multiple Prometheus instances

3. Set up Grafana

• Install Grafana on Kubernetes
• Add Prometheus as a Data Source.
• Create dashboards