Playbook: Monitoring Pipeline Setup

Goal

Deploy or expand a monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana, exporters) for infrastructure visibility.

Steps

1. Install Prometheus
2. Use Docker Compose or native binary

3. Add scrape targets (e.g. Node Exporter)

4. Install Grafana

5. Connect to Prometheus

6. Import dashboards

7. Configure exporters

8. Node, Traefik, PostgreSQL, custom apps

9. Add alert rules

10. High CPU, memory, disk, down targets

11. Test alert pipeline

12. AlertManager → Email/Slack/Telegram

Output

Operational observability stack, alert coverage, and dashboards for all critical services.