Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring

Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring provides a simplified approach that enables you to monitor your Kubernetes fleet. You can use its rich interface to drill into your data, as well as take advantage of preconfigured dashboards, recording rules, and alert rules. With Kubernetes Monitoring, you can collect and store telemetry data about your infrastructure in Grafana Cloud, including:

Metrics
Pod logs
Cluster events
Traces
Cost metrics

Get started

Get started easily by using a simple configuration process with Grafana Agent Flow mode to set up Kubernetes Monitoring.

Other configuration methods

There are many available methods you can use to configure Kubernetes Monitoring for your infrastructure data. Refer to Configure manually for infrastructure.

To configure data about an application running in Kubernetes, refer to Configure manually for applications.

Insight into performance and health

The challenge with gaining insight into the performance and health of a Kubernetes infrastructure is complex and real. Kubernetes Monitoring provides crucial information about your infrastructure with:

Comprehensive monitoring and visibility
Advanced warning of usage spikes and increasing error rates
Insight into usage to optimize resources
Easier discovery of issues and troubleshooting
Real-time and predicted costs
Management and refinement of stored metrics

Rich exploration and drilldown

You can access your data in one platform to explore your infrastructure and analyze the health of your Clusters, Pods, and containers. As you drill down to examine and troubleshoot, you remain within the same Kubernetes Monitoring GUI. To learn more, refer to Explore your infrastructure.

What is out of the box

These features are included with Kubernetes Monitoring:

Drilling into your data using a single GUI
Kubernetes home “crow’s nest” view, showing a snapshot of Cluster, node, Pod, and container counts, as well as any issues that need attention
Efficiency view dedicated to exploring and examining resource usage
Cost view for you to analyze and manage your infrastructure costs and potential savings
Preconfigured dashboards for analyzing resource usage and cluster operations, from the multi-cluster level down to individual containers and pods
Recording rules that increase the speed of dashboard queries and the evaluation of alerting rules
Alerting rules for alerting on conditions that you want to be informed about
An event handler to watch for Kubernetes events in your clusters