External links

2026-04-27

Authoritative external resources, grouped by topic.

Charts and source

• ovesorg/deployment-charts » prometheus-stack/ — the in-repo vendored chart this site documents.
• prometheus-community/helm-charts » kube-prometheus-stack — upstream chart.
• prometheus-operator/kube-prometheus — the upstream project the chart is derived from.

Prometheus Operator

• Prometheus Operator docs — design and CRD reference.
• API reference — full schema for Prometheus, Alertmanager, ServiceMonitor, etc.
• GitHub repo.

Prometheus

• Official docs.
• PromQL basics.
• Best practices — naming, labels, instrumentation, alerting.
• Alerting rules.
• Recording rules.
• Awesome Prometheus alerts — community-maintained alert library.

Alertmanager

• Configuration reference.
• Notification template reference.
• amtool — CLI for inspecting and testing.

Grafana

• Grafana docs.
• Provisioning dashboards.
• Dashboard library — community-shared dashboards.
• Grafana Helm chart — the subchart used here.

Exporters

• kube-state-metrics.
• node-exporter.
• windows_exporter.
• blackbox_exporter — for synthetic checks via Probe CR.
• Exporter list — full upstream list.

Long-term storage / federation

• Thanos.
• Cortex.
• Grafana Mimir.

Helm

• Helm 3 docs.
• helm install.
• helm upgrade.
• helm dependency.
• Best practices for CRDs.