I've been using Bitnami's version of the Grafana/Loki/Prometheus chart, but since they're no longer supporting it, I need to find a reliable replacement. Can anyone recommend a good alternative?
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If you're looking to save on resources, I switched to VictoriaMetrics and it has been fantastic. It provides about a 3-4x reduction in resource usage compared to Prometheus and integrates well with metric scraping. You should consider it as a drop-in replacement for kube-prometheus-stack.
You might want to check out the kube-prometheus-stack from the Prometheus community. It's the official maintained chart and offers good functionality. Also, don't forget to look at the official Grafana Loki chart for setting up Loki. They should serve you well!
I've been using it myself and found it to work pretty decently, so it might be worth trying!
You could always roll your own if the existing solutions don't meet your needs. I built my own with a tailored setup since the Grafana charts felt too heavy and included too much unnecessary stuff for our specific use case. It wasn't hard; just map out what you really need and start from there!
Another solid option is lgtm-distributed along with k8s-monitoring Helm charts. It worked well for my setup and kept things simple.
While the kube-prometheus-stack is official, I found their charts to be a bit buggy. The community isn't always super responsive with PRs, so you might run into some issues.