Cloud Foundry aims to make development, deployment, and maintenance of applications faster and easier on Kubernetes. In addition, engineers want to deploy performant apps — and keep them that way. Application monitoring tools help them achieve this. This post provides the steps that an engineer would need to take to deploy Prometheus and Grafana in order to monitor applications that are running on Kubernetes clusters, deployed using cf-for-k8s. Prometheus and Grafana converge application performance monitoring (APM) and observability needs into a single toolchain. Together, Prometheus and Grafana are the two most extensively used application monitoring tools in the DevOps world. These two tools complement each other very well, and help collect data and visualize what’s transpiring under the hood of your cloud applications. Another main advantage is that both the tools are available open source.