Kubernetes

Describe how the monitoring solution you are working with monitors Kubernetes and

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

This very much depends on what you chose to use. Let's address some of the solutions:

  • metrics-server: an open source and free monitoring solution that uses the cAdvisor component of kubelet to retrieve information on the cluster and its resources and stores them in-memory. Once installed, after some time you can run commands like kubectl top node and kubectl top pod to view performance metrics on nodes, pods and other resources.

TODO: add more monitoring solutions