# \#kubernetes **URL:** https://community.grafana.com/tag/kubernetes/41.md [Latest](https://community.grafana.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.grafana.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.grafana.com/tags.md) --- ## [Loki Monolithic HA Hitting Terminating Pods Endpoint](https://community.grafana.com/t/loki-monolithic-ha-hitting-terminating-pods-endpoint/163410)
**Author:** [@rnan](https://community.grafana.com/u/rnan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 24, 2026, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/loki-monolithic-ha-hitting-terminating-pods-endpoint/163410 "2026-06-24T20:00:11Z")
Hi, I am trying to debug an issue with the Loki in Monolithic mode, in a High Availability (HA) configuration, running in a Kubernetes cluster with 3 nodes. I am doing HA tests, when all 3 nodes are up then svc/loki-ga… --- ## [Zone aware metrics scraping?](https://community.grafana.com/t/zone-aware-metrics-scraping/162688)
**Author:** [@weastie](https://community.grafana.com/u/weastie)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2026, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/zone-aware-metrics-scraping/162688 "2026-05-08T20:27:00Z")
For a highly available Kubernetes clusters, metrics scraping can transfer lots of bytes between zones, which costs money in cloud environments like AWS. Right now I have two central “metrics” alloy pods which use cluste… --- ## [Best practice for OTel metrics from AWS Lambda with Mimir to avoid duplicate timestamp errors without exploding cardinality](https://community.grafana.com/t/best-practice-for-otel-metrics-from-aws-lambda-with-mimir-to-avoid-duplicate-timestamp-errors-without-exploding-cardinality/162431)
**Author:** [@amalik0](https://community.grafana.com/u/amalik0)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/best-practice-for-otel-metrics-from-aws-lambda-with-mimir-to-avoid-duplicate-timestamp-errors-without-exploding-cardinality/162431 "2026-04-08T15:07:37Z")
Hi, I’m looking for guidance on best practices for collecting custom OpenTelemetry metrics from AWS Lambda and sending them to Grafana Mimir. Setup: Grafana Mimir deployed in distributed mode Installed via Helm chart… --- ## [What are some suggestions for horizontally scaling Grafana Mimir on both read and write paths?](https://community.grafana.com/t/what-are-some-suggestions-for-horizontally-scaling-grafana-mimir-on-both-read-and-write-paths/162430)
**Author:** [@amalik0](https://community.grafana.com/u/amalik0)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/what-are-some-suggestions-for-horizontally-scaling-grafana-mimir-on-both-read-and-write-paths/162430 "2026-04-07T19:51:22Z")
Hi, I’m trying to understand the current best practice for running Grafana Mimir in a way that scales horizontally on both the read and write paths, ideally without needing frequent config changes or redeployments as us… --- ## [Scaling Mimir Alertmanager in single-tenant distributed deployment on EKS/Fargate with high alert volume](https://community.grafana.com/t/scaling-mimir-alertmanager-in-single-tenant-distributed-deployment-on-eks-fargate-with-high-alert-volume/162429)
**Author:** [@amalik0](https://community.grafana.com/u/amalik0)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2026, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/scaling-mimir-alertmanager-in-single-tenant-distributed-deployment-on-eks-fargate-with-high-alert-volume/162429 "2026-04-07T19:06:04Z")
Hi all, I’m looking for guidance on scaling Grafana Mimir Alertmanager in a distributed-mode deployment running on AWS EKS with AWS Fargate. Our setup is currently is a single-tenant setup. I’m trying to understand the… --- ## [Failed to pull image - docker.io/grafana/loki:2.9.4 ( even with more recent builds like 3.4.\* )](https://community.grafana.com/t/failed-to-pull-image-docker-io-grafana-loki-2-9-4-even-with-more-recent-builds-like-3-4/162339)
**Author:** [@maruego](https://community.grafana.com/u/maruego)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2026, 8:00am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/failed-to-pull-image-docker-io-grafana-loki-2-9-4-even-with-more-recent-builds-like-3-4/162339 "2026-04-01T08:00:04Z")
Hi dear Grafana team, this is my first post ever :slight\_smile: I’ve been stalking the forum here and there for few years without actually need to open a new request but this time I’ve a small doubt there might be some … --- ## [Loki ingester stuck in a loop "uploading tables" and /ready returns 503](https://community.grafana.com/t/loki-ingester-stuck-in-a-loop-uploading-tables-and-ready-returns-503/162040)
**Author:** [@mstone](https://community.grafana.com/u/mstone)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/loki-ingester-stuck-in-a-loop-uploading-tables-and-ready-returns-503/162040 "2026-03-12T20:21:42Z")
Each of our three loki ingester replicas (deployed with the loki helm chart, version 6.53.0) are stuck repeatedly doing this in the logs: level=info ts=2026-03-10T00:48:24.304438644Z caller=table\_manager.go:136 index-st… --- ## [Kubernetes (microk8s) monitoring on Ubuntu with Alloy](https://community.grafana.com/t/kubernetes-microk8s-monitoring-on-ubuntu-with-alloy/161735)
**Author:** [@Rossm](https://community.grafana.com/u/Rossm)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2026, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/kubernetes-microk8s-monitoring-on-ubuntu-with-alloy/161735 "2026-02-25T19:44:20Z")
Hi all, I am new to Grafana Stack and am trying to get a test environment up and running using Alloy, Prometheus and Grafana on a PC running Ubuntu. Apologies for the links, I am only allowed to add two links as a new u… --- ## [K3s monitoring with default Observability-\>Kubernetes-\>Workloads](https://community.grafana.com/t/k3s-monitoring-with-default-observability-kubernetes-workloads/161726)
**Author:** [@maxi1555](https://community.grafana.com/u/maxi1555)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2026, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/k3s-monitoring-with-default-observability-kubernetes-workloads/161726 "2026-02-18T15:14:26Z")
Hi, I’m new here, and I’ve a k3s kubernetes cluster, i’ve enabled on grafana cloud the Observability→Kubernetes, I’ve installed successfully the chart with the values, but plenty of data is totally missing on grafana cl… --- ## [Accessing Grafana through external proxy with different hostname - URL redirection issue](https://community.grafana.com/t/accessing-grafana-through-external-proxy-with-different-hostname-url-redirection-issue/161398)
**Author:** [@sokioa](https://community.grafana.com/u/sokioa)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/accessing-grafana-through-external-proxy-with-different-hostname-url-redirection-issue/161398 "2026-01-28T17:15:54Z")
What Grafana version and what operating system are you using? Grafana deployed via Helm chart in Kubernetes Operating System: Kubernetes cluster (Linux containers) What are you trying to achieve? I want to make … --- ## [For monitoring Kubernetes clusters, should metrics and log collection be separate deployments?](https://community.grafana.com/t/for-monitoring-kubernetes-clusters-should-metrics-and-log-collection-be-separate-deployments/160257)
**Author:** [@weastie](https://community.grafana.com/u/weastie)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 17, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/for-monitoring-kubernetes-clusters-should-metrics-and-log-collection-be-separate-deployments/160257 "2025-12-17T19:15:36Z")
I noticed that the K8s monitoring helm chart deploys metrics and log collections separately, as in some pods are just for metrics and some are just for log collection. I am considering using the Grafana Alloy helm chart … --- ## [GCS access issue](https://community.grafana.com/t/gcs-access-issue/160222)
**Author:** [@shubhamsingh3](https://community.grafana.com/u/shubhamsingh3)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 14, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/gcs-access-issue/160222 "2025-12-14T19:30:43Z")
I’m running Loki in simpleScalable mode on GKE with GCS as the storage backend. I want Loki to access the GCS bucket using only a Google Service Account via Workload Identity, without using a credentials JSON file. I’ve… --- ## [Alloy on k8s: How to receive syslog from remote servers](https://community.grafana.com/t/alloy-on-k8s-how-to-receive-syslog-from-remote-servers/159967)
**Author:** [@rkmrhonjo](https://community.grafana.com/u/rkmrhonjo)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 10, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/alloy-on-k8s-how-to-receive-syslog-from-remote-servers/159967 "2025-12-10T19:26:42Z")
Overview I’m planning to deploy alloy on my kubrentes cluster by helm. And I want to make Alloy able to receive syslog from remote servers. Remote servers are out of the kubernetes cluster. But I can’t find the knowled… --- ## [Grafana helm chart fails to provision dashboards](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-helm-chart-fails-to-provision-dashboards/148735)
**Author:** [@jski185](https://community.grafana.com/u/jski185)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-helm-chart-fails-to-provision-dashboards/148735 "2025-11-14T03:16:37Z")
What Grafana version and what operating system are you using? Kubernetes (via k3s) version v1.31.6+k3s1 Grafana helm chart version 8.12.1 (which deploys appver 11.6.0) What are you trying to achieve? I am trying … --- ## [Zabbix Kubernetes Monitoring Individual Namespaces / Pods](https://community.grafana.com/t/zabbix-kubernetes-monitoring-individual-namespaces-pods/107171)
**Author:** [@bartdeboer2014](https://community.grafana.com/u/bartdeboer2014)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/zabbix-kubernetes-monitoring-individual-namespaces-pods/107171 "2025-10-30T15:06:34Z")
Right now I have configured variables inside my Grafana Dashboard for the Groups and the hosts - see image. How do I manage to monitor individual pods and namespaces for Kubernetes? How do I configure the variables fo… --- ## [Filtering Deployments in Promtail and K8S](https://community.grafana.com/t/filtering-deployments-in-promtail-and-k8s/157921)
**Author:** [@adrielairaldo](https://community.grafana.com/u/adrielairaldo)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/filtering-deployments-in-promtail-and-k8s/157921 "2025-09-27T18:51:24Z")
My problem: I am only using promtail to send logs from my Kubernetes cluster to my Grafana cloud instance. It works, my logs arrive perfectly. My problem is that I don’t want to send logs from the whole cluster, I only w… --- ## [Alerting Helm Charts Config Maps](https://community.grafana.com/t/alerting-helm-charts-config-maps/152030)
**Author:** [@cptorange16](https://community.grafana.com/u/cptorange16)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/alerting-helm-charts-config-maps/152030 "2025-09-25T14:08:38Z")
Hello I am trying to deploy my grafana to a cluster. I was able to deploy both dashboards and datasources via helm charts using the information in the grafana docs and the helm charts examples: I have some issues with… --- ## [How to configure grafana behind reverse proxy ingress nginx controller](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-configure-grafana-behind-reverse-proxy-ingress-nginx-controller/35937)
**Author:** [@shayberman](https://community.grafana.com/u/shayberman)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-configure-grafana-behind-reverse-proxy-ingress-nginx-controller/35937 "2025-07-19T12:19:26Z")
I am struggling to setup grafana(v7.0.3) behind reverse proxy(nginx ingress controller nginx-ingress-controller:0.25.0) under dedicated path e.g MYHOST.com/grafana . I deploy the prometheus and grafana using the prometh… --- ## [Alloy unable to read Kubernetes cluster events](https://community.grafana.com/t/alloy-unable-to-read-kubernetes-cluster-events/152363)
**Author:** [@user10525](https://community.grafana.com/u/user10525)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/alloy-unable-to-read-kubernetes-cluster-events/152363 "2025-06-11T14:21:55Z")
Hello! I recently deployed Alloy to scrape K8s events using this helm chart. values.yaml is included below. alloy: configMap: create: true content: |- logging { level = "info" format = "… --- ## [Loki and kubernetes gateway issues](https://community.grafana.com/t/loki-and-kubernetes-gateway-issues/124679)
**Author:** [@aslabs](https://community.grafana.com/u/aslabs)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2025, 8:51am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/loki-and-kubernetes-gateway-issues/124679 "2025-06-04T08:51:13Z")
Greetings! I am currently trying to deploy Loki SSD on a local Kubernetes cluster following the SSD guide \[Install the simple scalable Helm chart | Grafana Loki documentation\] Currently having it point to minio with nf… --- ## [K8s monitoring - how to get metrics of pod / service?](https://community.grafana.com/t/k8s-monitoring-how-to-get-metrics-of-pod-service/138488)
**Author:** [@stwmartin](https://community.grafana.com/u/stwmartin)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2025, 8:34am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/k8s-monitoring-how-to-get-metrics-of-pod-service/138488 "2025-06-04T08:34:14Z")
Hi there :wave:t2: I have a k8s cluster with some services / applications in it. Base metrics of kubernetes are working fine, dashboards are populated with data and I cann see the pods in the default kubernetes dashboar… --- ## [Unable to connect with Loki in my homeLab](https://community.grafana.com/t/unable-to-connect-with-loki-in-my-homelab/150490)
**Author:** [@mdcravero](https://community.grafana.com/u/mdcravero)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 20, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/unable-to-connect-with-loki-in-my-homelab/150490 "2025-05-20T21:51:45Z")
I everyone! I’m trying to configure loki-stack in my HomeLab with kubernetes. I can configure grafana/prometheus without problems, but I haven’t had any luck with Loki. All resources are in the same namespace “Monitor… --- ## [Grafana Alertmanager cluster size](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-alertmanager-cluster-size/150180)
**Author:** [@gedohub](https://community.grafana.com/u/gedohub)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 16, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-alertmanager-cluster-size/150180 "2025-05-16T21:09:25Z")
What Grafana version and what operating system are you using? I have tested with Grafana 11.4.1 and 11.6.1 What are you trying to achieve? I’m trying to run multiple Grafana setups on one Kubernetes cluster. Each … --- ## [Storing s3 accessKeyID and secretAccessKey securely](https://community.grafana.com/t/storing-s3-accesskeyid-and-secretaccesskey-securely/92133)
**Author:** [@hibaos](https://community.grafana.com/u/hibaos)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/storing-s3-accesskeyid-and-secretaccesskey-securely/92133 "2025-04-29T23:06:51Z")
Hi, I’m deploying Loki with Grafana Community Kubernetes Helm Charts | helm-charts and using the following configuration for the S3 auth: ... loki: storage: type: s3 s3: accessKeyId: \ **Author:** [@evgenimokhov](https://community.grafana.com/u/evgenimokhov)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/install-grafana-on-offline-station-with-plugins/121783 "2025-04-18T16:53:56Z") What Grafana version and what operating system are you using? Grafana 10.3.6, Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS What are you trying to achieve? Install Grafana and its plugins on an offline station. How are you trying to achi… --- ## [Is there need for a database when using grafana HA on k8s with PVC?](https://community.grafana.com/t/is-there-need-for-a-database-when-using-grafana-ha-on-k8s-with-pvc/113245)
**Author:** [@ishays](https://community.grafana.com/u/ishays)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/is-there-need-for-a-database-when-using-grafana-ha-on-k8s-with-pvc/113245 "2025-03-31T12:13:47Z")
Hi all, I’m looking into deploying grafana on an on-prem k8s cluster using the grafana helm chart. I’d like to have it run in a HA configuration with several grafana pods replicas and I read that using a database is a … --- ## [Cross data center high available Grafana mimir setup](https://community.grafana.com/t/cross-data-center-high-available-grafana-mimir-setup/145734)
**Author:** [@nitinsingh007](https://community.grafana.com/u/nitinsingh007)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/cross-data-center-high-available-grafana-mimir-setup/145734 "2025-03-06T16:28:08Z")
We are trying to setup grafana mimir on kubernetes with s3 object storage using its helm charts in microservices mode. We are looking for suggested setup for grafana minor to enable high availability across data center.… --- ## [Application Logs Not Appearing in Application Observability Dashboard](https://community.grafana.com/t/application-logs-not-appearing-in-application-observability-dashboard/144882)
**Author:** [@philippeassis](https://community.grafana.com/u/philippeassis)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/application-logs-not-appearing-in-application-observability-dashboard/144882 "2025-02-25T04:05:27Z")
What Grafana version and what operating system are you using? Grafana Cloud integrated with a Kubernetes cluster on Digital Ocean. Application stack: Node.js. What are you trying to achieve? Display application logs i… --- ## [Loki distributed mode gives error "at least one bucket name must be specified"](https://community.grafana.com/t/loki-distributed-mode-gives-error-at-least-one-bucket-name-must-be-specified/144146)
**Author:** [@hongbomiao](https://community.grafana.com/u/hongbomiao)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 6:48am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/loki-distributed-mode-gives-error-at-least-one-bucket-name-must-be-specified/144146 "2025-02-18T06:48:47Z")
I succeed Loki’s “SimpleScalable” deployment mode using S3 as storage. Now I have cleaned S3 buckets, and hope to try “Distributed” mode. Based on loki-distributed 0.80.1 · grafana/grafana loki/production/helm/loki/va… --- ## [Queries about Loki's compactor and retention mechanism](https://community.grafana.com/t/queries-about-lokis-compactor-and-retention-mechanism/141609)
**Author:** [@turnkeyautomation247](https://community.grafana.com/u/turnkeyautomation247)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/queries-about-lokis-compactor-and-retention-mechanism/141609 "2025-02-17T18:18:57Z")
Hey team, I am using Loki’s singleBinary deployment mode and have deployed Loki using Helm chart. I am currently using version 6.21.0. I recently enabled external storage of type S3. Here’s my sample storage configurati… [Next page](https://community.grafana.com/tag/kubernetes/41.md?match_all_tags=true&page=1&tags%5B%5D=kubernetes)