14 Monitoring applications and Kubernetes with Prometheus
Monitoring is the companion to logging: your monitoring system tells you something is wrong, and then you can dig into the logs to find out the details. Like logging, you want to have a centralized system to collect and visualize metrics about all your application components. An established approach for monitoring in Kubernetes uses another CNCF project: Prometheus, which is a server application that collects and stores metrics. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to deploy a shared monitoring system in Kubernetes with dashboards that show the health of individual applications and the cluster as a whole.
Prometheus runs on many platforms, but it’s particularly well suited to Kubernetes. ...
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