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Monitoring application-specific data

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Monitoring application-specific data

- [Instructor] When we originally turned on our Prometheus environment, we also turned on a set of service constructs, and service managers that actually connected the resources together. We're going to dive a little deeper into how those pieces tie together, and actually see where that data ends up within the Prometheus user interface, so that we could actually use those metrics in a more meaningful fashion. So on this structure we have two of the files that we used previously to create those resources. The first one, the 01-promkubecontrol one, is actually just a service definition. All I'm doing is, I'm exposing an API end-point, and giving it a specific set of selector parameters, and so that's this spec selector information that's defined here. This information is what actually what gets used, along with the label, which is the other part of connecting all these pieces together. But the spec selector is what's actually used to connect to the service manager component of the…

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