Configure Kubernetes Monitoring

Use the Kubernetes Monitoring interface to set up monitoring of your Kubernetes cluster and to install preconfigured dashboards and alerts.

Select a Kubernetes Monitoring approach from the following list to learn more.

Notes:
You must have the Admin role to install dashboards and alerts.
If you don’t want to use the preconfigured Agent manifests, you can manually deploy and scrape kube-state-metrics. However, if you don’t use Grafana Agent, you cannot monitor events.

Reinstall or upgrade Kubernetes Monitoring

Grafana Agent, dashboards, alerting rules, recording rules, kube-state-metrics, and Kubernetes manifests are updated regularly. You must update these components manually to take advantage of any updates. See how to update Kubernetes Monitoring components.

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