Prometheus Agent

This chart deploys Prometheus in agent mode to scrape Kubernetes metrics and write them to a central Prometheus endpoint.

Secrets

To securely provide the remote write credentials, create a Kubernetes Secret named prometheus-remote-write-credentials in the target namespace.

REMOTE_WRITE_USERNAME="your-username"
REMOTE_WRITE_PASSWORD="your-secret-password-here"
kubectl create secret generic prometheus-remote-write-credentials \
    --from-literal=username="$REMOTE_WRITE_USERNAME" \
    --from-literal=password="$REMOTE_WRITE_PASSWORD" \
    -n <namespace>

Parameters

prometheusAgent parameters

Name	Description	Value
image	The image for Prometheus	prom/prometheus:v2.54.1
imagePullPolicy	Pull policy for Prometheus image	Always
replicas	Number of replicas for the Prometheus agent deployment	1

Remote write configuration

Name	Description	Value
remoteWrite.url	The remote write endpoint URL.	""

Resources requests and limits

Name	Description	Value
resources.requests.memory	Memory request for the container	64Mi
resources.requests.cpu	CPU request for the container	250m
resources.limits.memory	Memory limit for the container	128Mi
resources.limits.cpu	CPU limit for the container	500m