Using a built-in service discovery

To understand how the integration between Prometheus and a service discovery provider works, we're going to rely on our test environment. Going even further, we'll provide a working example of Prometheus running in Kubernetes, relying on its native service discovery for this platform. These hands-on examples will showcase how everything ties together, helping you figure out not only the benefits but, above all, the simplicity of these mechanics.

Using Consul service discovery

For this chapter, we configured Consul as an example service discovery system in our virtual machine-based test environment – Consul is quite simple to set up, which makes it perfect for our example...