Let’s examine some of the available Kubernetes monitoring and logging tools, including Prometheus for monitoring and Grafana for visualization and dashboards.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. In a Kubernetes environment, applications operate across multiple nodes within a cluster, and application services can be distributed across multiple clusters and multiple clouds, making tracking the health of an application and the infrastructure it depends on quite challenging. Kubernetes monitoring is the process of gathering metrics from the Kubernetes clusters you operate to identify critical events and ensure that all hardware, software, and applications are operating as expected. Aggregating metrics in a central location will help you understand and protect the health of your entire Kubernetes fleet and the applications and services running on it. Between the layers of abstraction created by containerization and Kubernetes, and the dynamic nature of applications running in a K8s environment, monitoring everything can be a challenge.
