From the course: Kubernetes: Monitoring with Prometheus
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Monitoring Kubernetes - Kubernetes Tutorial
From the course: Kubernetes: Monitoring with Prometheus
Monitoring Kubernetes
- [Instructor] So when we talk about monitoring our Kubernetes environments, the tool that most people talk about is Prometheus, but it's not the only tool and I think it's worth understanding the set of tools that people always talk about when they talk about monitoring these environments in general. The first one that always comes up is a tool called cAdvisor. It was originally developed by Google to look at collecting metrics specifically from the container environment, so the underlying containers within the system. Now in a Kubernetes environment, not only do we have containers, but we have this hierarchy of services, like pods and deployments and stateful sets, et cetera. And cAdvisor is really only looking at metrics of those individual containers, so there's a lot of extra work that we would end up doing if we were using cAdvisor and just collecting cAdvisor metrics to understand the state of our system. On top of that, cAdvisor's only collecting data from the actual…
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