Pre-requisite

Why Monitoring Important?

To ensure high availability: Kubernetes main function is to provide high availability, but to make sure it works properly careful monitoring and management are required. Monitoring the cluster and setting up alerts ensures that applications remain available even in the event of failures or unexpected events. Identify Issues and Troubleshoot: By monitoring you can detect when there is any application failure or any network problems. With real-time monitoring, you can troubleshoot the issues before they impact your users. Optimize performance and capacity: Monitoring enables tracking the performance of applications and infrastructure over time and identifying opportunities to optimize performance and capacity. Security: By monitoring the Kubernetes cluster you can get details of potential security risks. You can set policies and regulations to counter these security risks....

Pre-requisite

The following installation should be done before moving to the next section :...

How to use Grafana to Visualize Kuberbernetes Metrics

Step 1: Create Kubernetes Cluster...

Conclusion

So you have now successfully learned why monitoring Kubernetes cluster is required . Also we have created a sample application and , deployed and scaled it as load increases on the Kubernetes cluster . We also learned how to use Prometheus as a data source in Grafana to get the Kubernetes metrics . At last we also visualized some of the dashboards that describes pods and Kubernetes cluster in Grafana ....

FAQs On How to Use Grafana to Visualize Kubernetes Metrics

1. How Grafana is used in troubleshooting issues within the Kubernetes cluster?...