NexClipper / tobs

tobs - The Observability Stack for Kubernetes. Easy install of a full observability stack into a k8s cluster with a CLI tool or Helm charts.

tobs - The Observability Stack for Kubernetes

Tobs is a tool that aims to make it as easy as possible to install a full observability stack into a Kubernetes cluster. Currently this stack includes:

• Prometheus to collect metrics
• Grafana to visualize what's going on
• Promscale (design doc) to store metrics for the long-term and allow analysis with both PromQL and SQL.

We plan to expand this stack over time and welcome contributions.

Tobs provides a CLI tool to make deployment and operations easier. We also provide Helm charts that can be used directly or as sub-charts for other projects.

🔥 Quick start

Dependencies: Helm

Using the tobs CLI tool

The CLI tool provides the most seamless experience for interacting with tobs.

Getting started with the CLI tool is a two-step process: First you install the CLI tool locally, then you use the CLI tool to install the tobs stack into your Kubernetes cluster.

Installing the CLI tool

To download and install tobs, run the following in your terminal, then follow the on-screen instructions.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSLf  https://tsdb.co/install-tobs-sh |sh

Alternatively, you can download the CLI directly via our releases page

Using the tobs CLI tool to deploy the stack into your Kubernetes cluster

After setting up tobs run the following to install the tobs helm charts into your Kubernetes cluster

tobs install

This will deploy all of the tobs components into your cluster and provide instructions as to next steps.

Getting started by viewing your metrics in Grafana

To see your Grafana dashboards after installation run

tobs grafana change-password <new_password>
tobs grafana port-forward

Then, point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ and login with the admin username.

More details about the CLI tool can be found here

🛠Alternative deployment methods

Using the Helm charts without the CLI tool

Users sometimes want to use our Helm charts as sub-charts for other project or integrate them into their infrastructure without using our CLI tool. This is a supported use-case and instructions on using the Helm charts can be found here.

✏️ Contributing

We welcome contributions to tobs, which is licensed and released under the open-source Apache License, Version 2. The same Contributor's Agreement applies as in TimescaleDB; please sign the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) if you're a new contributor.