This section provides visual diagrams for common deployment scenarios of the monitoring stack. These architectures are based on real-world best practices and are intended to help you design and scale your own observability platform.

📌 1. Single Cluster (Basic)

Use case: Small to medium workloads, self-managed Kubernetes cluster or bare-metal VM setup.

Components

• Prometheus for scraping and short-term storage
• Alertmanager for alert notifications
• Grafana for visualization
• Exporters (node_exporter, app-specific)
• Optional: Local vmagent

Diagram