Let’s look at some of the available Kubernetes monitoring and Kubernetes logging tools, including Prometheus for monitoring and Grafana for visualization and dashboards. By Kyle Hunter.
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.
There are a variety of popular tools that can enhance your Kubernetes container monitoring efforts. Some of the most common ones include:
- Prometheus: An open-source event monitoring and alerting tool that collects and stores metrics as time series data. Prometheus joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2016 as the second hosted project after Kubernetes.
- Grafana: A fully managed visualization platform for applications and infrastructure that works with monitoring software such as Prometheus. Grafana provides capabilities to collect, store, visualize, and alert on data.
- Thanos: A metric system that provides a simple and cost-effective way to centralize and scale Prometheus-based monitoring systems.
- Elasticsearch: A distributed, JSON-based search and analytics engine.
- Logstash: An open source, server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from a multitude of sources simultaneously, transforms it, and then sends it to your favorite stash.
- Kibana: A data visualization and exploration tool used for log and time series analytics, application monitoring, and operational intelligence use cases.
Many teams use these monitoring and logging tools alone or in combination to create their own solutions and address specific container monitoring and Kubernetes application monitoring needs. Good read!
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