diff --git a/charts/user-monitoring-stack/.helmignore b/charts/user-monitoring-stack/.helmignore
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+# Patterns to ignore when building packages.
+# This supports shell glob matching, relative path matching, and
+# negation (prefixed with !). Only one pattern per line.
+.DS_Store
+# Common VCS dirs
+.git/
+.gitignore
+.bzr/
+.bzrignore
+.hg/
+.hgignore
+.svn/
+# Common backup files
+*.swp
+*.bak
+*.tmp
+*.orig
+*~
+# Various IDEs
+.project
+.idea/
+*.tmproj
+.vscode/
diff --git a/charts/user-monitoring-stack/Chart.lock b/charts/user-monitoring-stack/Chart.lock
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+dependencies:
+- name: kube-prometheus-stack
+  repository: https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
+  version: 51.5.3
+digest: sha256:8e25b83cde5acfd903c3e45f30b9ae28201f9dd68daab1aeca709f1185608916
+generated: "2023-10-12T13:25:38.219319684+02:00"
diff --git a/charts/user-monitoring-stack/Chart.yaml b/charts/user-monitoring-stack/Chart.yaml
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+apiVersion: v2
+name: user-monitoring-stack
+description: A Helm chart for Kubernetes
+
+# A chart can be either an 'application' or a 'library' chart.
+#
+# Application charts are a collection of templates that can be packaged into versioned archives
+# to be deployed.
+#
+# Library charts provide useful utilities or functions for the chart developer. They're included as
+# a dependency of application charts to inject those utilities and functions into the rendering
+# pipeline. Library charts do not define any templates and therefore cannot be deployed.
+type: application
+
+# This is the chart version. This version number should be incremented each time you make changes
+# to the chart and its templates, including the app version.
+# Versions are expected to follow Semantic Versioning (https://semver.org/)
+version: 0.1.0
+
+# This is the version number of the application being deployed. This version number should be
+# incremented each time you make changes to the application. Versions are not expected to
+# follow Semantic Versioning. They should reflect the version the application is using.
+# It is recommended to use it with quotes.
+appVersion: "1.16.0"
+dependencies:
+- name: kube-prometheus-stack
+  condition: promstack.enabled
+  version: "51.5.3"
+  repository: "https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts"
diff --git a/charts/user-monitoring-stack/charts/kube-prometheus-stack-51.5.3.tgz b/charts/user-monitoring-stack/charts/kube-prometheus-stack-51.5.3.tgz
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diff --git a/charts/user-monitoring-stack/values.yaml b/charts/user-monitoring-stack/values.yaml
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+promstack:
+  enabled: true
+
+kube-prometheus-stack:
+  prometheus:
+    enabled: true
+    prometheusSpec:
+      resources:
+        requests:
+          cpu: 100m
+          memory: 400Mi
+      scrapeInterval: 60s
+      serviceMonitorNamespaceSelector:
+        matchLabels:
+          user: <user>
+      serviceMonitorSelector: {}
+      podMonitorNamespaceSelector:
+        matchLabels:
+          user: <user>
+      podMonitorSelector: {}
+      probeNamespaceSelector:
+        matchLabels:
+          user: <user>
+      ruleSelectorNilUsesHelmValues: false
+      serviceMonitorSelectorNilUsesHelmValues: false
+      podMonitorSelectorNilUsesHelmValues: false
+      probeSelectorNilUsesHelmValues: false
+    serviceAccount:
+      create: true
+      name: "prometheus-<user>"
+  grafana:
+    enabled: false
+  alertmanager:
+    enabled: false
+  
+  kubernetesServiceMonitors:
+    enabled: false
+  
+
+
+# not relevant for the lab
+  crds:
+    enabled: false
+  kubeProxy:
+    enabled: false 
+  kubeScheduler:
+    enabled: false
+  kubeControllerManager:
+    enabled: false 
+  kubeEtcd:
+    enabled: false 
+  kubeApiServer:
+    enabled: false
+  kubelet:
+    enabled: false
+  coreDns:
+    enabled: false
+  kubeStateMetrics:
+    enabled: false
+  nodeExporter:
+    enabled: false
+  prometheusOperator:
+    enabled: false
+  kubeletService:
+    enabled: false
+  defaultRules:
+    create: false
+
+
+global:
+  rbac:
+    create: false
+    createAggregateClusterRoles: false
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