Kubernetes installs kube-prometheus-stack in prometheus through the deploy library. Its chart version is pinned there; k8s/grafana-values.yaml contains the values for the whole stack, despite the filename.

The values file is tracked. .gitignore also lists it, but that does not stop Git tracking later edits. Keep local credentials in Secrets rather than treating changes to this file as ignored.

Prepare Grafana admin and Alertmanager Secrets separately. The Alertmanager configuration example and Telegram template are in k8s/; the main deploy selection excludes the example config. Certificates and ingress expose Grafana, and the rule files add service-specific alerts.

The values use local-path PVCs for Grafana, Prometheus, and Alertmanager. Retention is limited by both time and size. Back up Grafana state and any history that must survive a storage failure.

The Compose stack has separate Prometheus and Alertmanager configuration files. There is no root active marker. This README describes committed main files; local VictoriaMetrics experiments are not part of that configuration.

See the repository README for deployment selection.