SQL Server on Kubernetes: Designing and Building a Modern Data Platform

© Anthony E. Nocentino, Ben Weissman 2021

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8. Monitoring SQL Server on Kubernetes

Anthony E. Nocentino¹   and Ben Weissman²

(1)

Oxford, MS, USA

(2)

Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany

 

While we can use kubectl to look at the log files of specific pods, this simply does not qualify as a monitoring solution, and due to the distributed and ephemeral nature of workloads between nodes, pods, and containers, we really think that a central looking glass into your environment is necessary to analyze and catch issues fast enough when they occur – or even before.

Therefore, we would like to introduce you to two open source solutions that fully integrate with Kubernetes and SQL ...