I've got a Kubernetes cluster prepared to be be integrated with Prometheus, i.e., all relevant information is exposed with /metrics and scraped by a Prometheus instance. I want to save the information long term and I've decided that Influx DB is the best option for that. In addition, I want to create dashboards using Grafana.

This would require moving the information from Prometheus to Influx DB. According to this, for Influx DB v1, this would be accomplished by using directly remote writes in Prometheus. However, Influx DB v2 doesn't allow this way of working. Instead, Telegraf has to be inserted in the middle. Therefore, the whole pipeline would be Prometheus 🠮 Telegraf 🠮 Influx DB 🠮 Grafana.

I'm using EKS to deploy the cluster, but these instructions should work with any other Kubernetes cluster. I'll only assume that kubectl is already configured to work with your cluster. We are going to deploy many services, so you may require new nodes in your cluster.

Helm

We'are going to use Helm for installing all the components, so first we …