Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

Monitoring your Kubernetes cluster on GCP

Before we look at the monitoring platform of GCP, the nodes of GKE cluster should admit being scanned for any applied status:

// add nodes with monitoring scope$ gcloud container clusters create my-k8s-cluster --cluster-version 1.9.7-gke.0 - -machine-type f1-micro --num-nodes 3 --network k8s-network --zone us-central1-a - -tags private --scopes=storage-rw,compute-ro, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring

Google Stackdriver provides system monitoring in a hybrid cloud environment. Besides its own GCP, it can also cover your computing resources on AWS. To access its web console, you can find its section under the menu on the left-hand side. There are multiple service categories in Stackdriver. ...