# infrastructure

Ships Kubernetes, host, container, and cloud provider telemetry into Grafana Cloud. It covers Helm configurations and Alloy setup.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 4300 installs · ★ 290
- Author: grafana
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/grafana/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/grafana-cloud/infrastructure/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/infrastructure

## What it does

This skill guides telemetry ingestion into Grafana Cloud. It provides instructions for the `grafana/k8s-monitoring` Helm chart, pulling together `kube-state-metrics`, `node-exporter`, and cAdvisor. For standalone Linux machines, it configures the Alloy collector with `prometheus.exporter.unix`.

It also sets up datasources for CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Google Cloud Monitoring. The skill includes verification queries in PromQL and LogQL, plus dashboard IDs like 1860, 15520, and 14282 to view ingested data immediately.

Before running the setup, you need Grafana Cloud endpoints and an API key with `metrics:write`, `logs:write`, and `traces:write` permissions. If `node-exporter` hits `CrashLoopBackOff`, check for a port collision on `:9100` caused by `hostNetwork: true`.

## Requirements
- Works with: Grafana, AWS, Azure

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add grafana/skills --skill infrastructure -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/infrastructure/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/infrastructure/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add grafana/skills --skill infrastructure -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/infrastructure/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add grafana/skills --skill infrastructure -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/infrastructure/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install grafana/skills infrastructure
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/infrastructure/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add grafana/skills --skill infrastructure -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/grafana/skills --path skills/grafana-cloud/infrastructure
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/infrastructure/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add grafana/skills --skill infrastructure -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/grafana/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/grafana-cloud/infrastructure/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- deploy the `grafana/k8s-monitoring` Helm chart to a cluster
- collect Linux host metrics with Alloy
- configure CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or Google Cloud Monitoring datasources
- set up alert rules for `PodCrashLooping` and node memory pressure

## Example prompts
- Send K8s metrics and logs to Grafana Cloud using the k8s-monitoring Helm chart
- Configure Alloy on my Linux host to export unix metrics to Grafana
- Pull EC2 CPU metrics from AWS CloudWatch into Grafana Cloud

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: infrastructure
license: Apache-2.0
description: Ship Kubernetes, host, container, and cloud-provider telemetry into Grafana Cloud — `k8s-monitoring` Helm chart for K8s clusters (metrics + logs + traces + events + cost), Alloy `prometheus.exporter.unix` for Linux hosts, cAdvisor + Docker discovery for containers, and CloudWatch / Azure Monitor / Google Cloud Monitoring datasource setup. Use when onboarding a new cluster or VM fleet to Grafana Cloud, picking the right Helm values for K8s scraping, wiring kube-state-metrics + node-exporter + cAdvisor, alerting on `PodCrashLooping` / node memory / PVC capacity, or pulling AWS / Azure / GCP cloud metrics — even when the user says "monitor my cluster", "send K8s metrics to Grafana", "scrape EC2 metrics", "cluster pod logs", or "install the monitoring helm chart" without naming `k8s-monitoring` or Alloy.
---

# Grafana Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring

> **Docs**: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/

K8s + host + container + cloud-provider telemetry, mostly via the `grafana/k8s-monitoring` Helm chart or Alloy.

## Prerequisites

- Grafana Cloud stack with Prometheus / Loki / Tempo endpoints + API key (`metrics:write`, `logs:write`, `traces:write`)
- For Kubernetes: a cluster + `helm` 3.x + `kubectl` context pointing at it
- For hosts / Docker: Alloy installed on the node

## Common Workflows

### 1. Onboard a Kubernetes cluster (k8s-monitoring chart)

```bash
# 1. Create the namespace + secret
kubectl create namespace monitoring
kubectl create secret generic grafana-cloud-secret \
  -n monitoring --from-literal=api-key=<your-api-key>

# 2. Install — values.yaml in references/k8s-monitoring-values.md
helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts && helm repo update
helm install k8s-monitoring grafana/k8s-monitoring \
  --version 4.1.4 -n monitoring -f values.yaml

# 3. Verify every pod is Running
kubectl get pods -n monitoring
# Expect alloy-*, kube-state-metrics-*, node-exporter-*, etc. all Ready.

# 4. Verify no error logs in the metrics/logs/traces Alloys
kubectl -n monitoring logs deploy/k8s-monitoring-alloy-metrics --tail=50 | grep -iE 'error|level=err' || echo "clean"

# 5. Verify telemetry landed in Grafana Cloud
#    PromQL on the metrics datasource (should be > 0):
#      sum(up{cluster="production-us-east"})
#    LogQL on Loki:
#      sum(count_over_time({cluster="production-us-east"}[5m]))
```

Full `values.yaml`, key PromQL, dashboard IDs (15520, 1860, 14282…), and alert rules: [`references/k8s-monitoring-values.md`](references/k8s-monitoring-values.md).

### 2. Monitor a Linux host

```alloy
# 1. /etc/alloy/config.alloy — see references/clouds-and-hosts.md for the full block
prometheus.exporter.unix "host"  { rootfs_path = "/" }
prometheus.scrape         "node" { targets = prometheus.exporter.unix.host.targets
                                   forward_to = [prometheus.remote_write.cloud.receiver] }
````
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