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🚀 How to Access Your Applications

✅ What's Running

All services are deployed and running:

  • ✅ Retail Store Application (UI, Catalog, Cart, Checkout, Orders)
  • ✅ Monitoring Stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager)
  • ✅ ArgoCD (GitOps)

🛍️ 1. Retail Store Application

URL: http://k8s-ingressn-ingressn-b81d5b7b46-3a4c63d7d41297d2.elb.us-west-2.amazonaws.com

Just open this URL in your browser - no login required!

What you can do:

  • Browse products
  • Add items to cart
  • Complete checkout
  • View orders

📊 2. Grafana (Monitoring Dashboards)

Quick Start:

.\start-monitoring.ps1

This will:

  1. Start port forwarding for Grafana and Prometheus
  2. Open both in your browser automatically

Manual Access:

Step 1: Open a new terminal and run:

kubectl port-forward -n monitoring svc/kube-prometheus-stack-grafana 3000:80

Step 2: Open browser to: http://localhost:3000

Step 3: Login with:

  • Username: admin
  • Password: prom-operator

Keep the terminal open while using Grafana!

🔍 3. Prometheus (Metrics)

Step 1: Open a new terminal and run:

kubectl port-forward -n monitoring svc/kube-prometheus-stack-prometheus 9090:9090

Step 2: Open browser to: http://localhost:9090

Try these queries:

# HTTP requests per second
rate(http_server_requests_seconds_count{namespace="retail-store"}[5m])

# Memory usage
container_memory_usage_bytes{namespace="retail-store"}

# CPU usage
rate(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total{namespace="retail-store"}[5m])

🔄 4. ArgoCD (GitOps Dashboard)

Step 1: Open a new terminal and run:

kubectl port-forward svc/argocd-server -n argocd 8080:80

Step 2: Open browser to: http://localhost:8080

Step 3: Get the password:

kubectl -n argocd get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -o jsonpath='{.data.password}' | base64 -d

Step 4: Login with:

  • Username: admin
  • Password: (from step 3)

🛠️ Useful Commands

Check Status

# All retail store pods
kubectl get pods -n retail-store

# All ArgoCD applications
kubectl get applications -n argocd

# All ingresses
kubectl get ingress -A

View Logs

# UI logs
kubectl logs -n retail-store -l app.kubernetes.io/name=ui --tail=50 -f

# All retail store logs
kubectl logs -n retail-store --all-containers=true --tail=100

Restart Services

# Restart UI
kubectl rollout restart deployment -n retail-store -l app.kubernetes.io/name=ui

# Restart all
kubectl rollout restart deployment -n retail-store

🎯 Quick Summary

Service Access Method URL Credentials
Retail Store Direct http://k8s-ingressn-ingressn-b81d5b7b46-3a4c63d7d41297d2.elb.us-west-2.amazonaws.com None
Grafana Port Forward http://localhost:3000 admin / prom-operator
Prometheus Port Forward http://localhost:9090 None
ArgoCD Port Forward http://localhost:8080 admin / (get from secret)

🐛 Troubleshooting

If retail store shows 500 error:

kubectl logs -n retail-store -l app.kubernetes.io/name=ui --tail=50
kubectl get pods -n retail-store

If port forward fails:

  • Check if port is already in use: netstat -ano | findstr :3000
  • Kill the process or use a different port
  • Make sure kubectl is connected: kubectl get nodes

If services are not responding:

# Check pod status
kubectl get pods -n retail-store

# Restart services
kubectl rollout restart deployment -n retail-store

📝 Files Created

  • start-monitoring.ps1 - Quick script to start Grafana and Prometheus
  • access-monitoring.md - Detailed monitoring access guide
  • monitoring-ingress.yaml - Ingress configuration (not used, using port-forward instead)
  • retail-store-servicemonitors.yaml - Prometheus service monitors

Enjoy your fully deployed retail store with monitoring! 🎉