Monitoring

Monitoring applies both to the infrastructure and the applications running on top of it.

Usually, we can leverage the same tools to monitor both levels.

Prometheus and Grafana are the ubiquitous solutions to provide this desired level of monitoring.

Prometheus is a time-series database used to store all the monitoring information for all our cluster components. It ships with a powerful query language to retrieve information.

Grafana is the dashboard that leverages the Prometheus query language in order to show it in a graphical and more understandable way. It is highly configurable, so you can organize dashboards at will.

At the infrastructure level, we can find the Node problem detector, that runs in form of a DaemonSet, reporting to the Node object in the API Server node conditions and events.