From bd3b1eb18d4df943a4fc84367b5cf04c1a668baa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleksandr Berezovskyi <berezovskyi.oleksandr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:23:36 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] feat(mon/grafana): install victoriametrics-metrics-datasource
 plugin

---
 kubernetes-monitoring/apps/monitoring/release.yaml | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kubernetes-monitoring/apps/monitoring/release.yaml b/kubernetes-monitoring/apps/monitoring/release.yaml
index 8df6607..08f1f0a 100644
--- a/kubernetes-monitoring/apps/monitoring/release.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes-monitoring/apps/monitoring/release.yaml
@@ -74,10 +74,12 @@ spec:
       # render dirs, so it's both redundant and breaks rollouts here.
       initChownData:
         enabled: false
-      # VictoriaLogs datasource plugin (signed, from Grafana catalog).
-      # The datasource itself is provisioned via a sidecar-labelled ConfigMap
-      # (configmap-logs-datasource.yaml).
+      # Native VictoriaMetrics datasource plugins (signed, from Grafana catalog).
+      # - metrics: backs the "VictoriaMetrics (DS)" datasource the chart
+      #   provisions by default (defaultDatasources.victoriametrics) — MetricsQL.
+      # - logs: backs our VictoriaLogs datasource (configmap-logs-datasource.yaml).
       plugins:
+        - victoriametrics-metrics-datasource
         - victoriametrics-logs-datasource
       # Native Grafana login — independent of Authelia (which lives in Talos).
       admin: