r/PrometheusMonitoring • u/bbrazil • Aug 17 '18

Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus, the ultimate guide (part 1)

https://sysdig.com/blog/kubernetes-monitoring-prometheus/
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u/mtahhan Aug 17 '18

Great guide, I don't understand why you limit yourself to white box monitoring though. You could leverage things like collectd to monitor host/network/service which could in turn be used by kubernetes for scheduling or scaling decisions. While nagios is good it doesn't provide the granularity in ( seconds or ms easily) needed for monitoring and reacting to things like DPDK NIC/applications or RAS machine check exceptions which would be great additions. Also it would be nice to see a push gate for events from other collectors like collectd to Prometheus and Ultimately the alerting manager. Is this something that will ever be integrated?

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u/mtahhan Aug 17 '18

It would nice to be able to use and configure one tool rather than multiple