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Monitor infrastructure

Kubernetes Monitoring

Configure Kubernetes Monitoring

Grafana Cloud

Configure Kubernetes Monitoring

You have many options for configuration, depending on your circumstances and the technologies you prefer.

Note
Kubernetes Monitoring is available only in Grafana Cloud, and only supports data sources hosted in Grafana Cloud.

Configure with Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart

You can configure with the Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart, which deploys Grafana Alloy. With this method, you can send metrics, logs, events, traces, and cost metrics.

Use this setup method when you want to have refined control over your initial installation.

Configure with Instrumentation Hub

For Linux/Kubernetes platforms, you can configure with Instrumentation Hub process to:

Install the Alloy collector.
Perform zero-instrumentation on your code with Beyla.
Activate the Kubernetes Monitoring product.
Build the Knowledge Graph.

Use this setup method when you want to get started quickly and then later refine your settings with Helm chart.

Platform choices

You can deploy the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart on the following platforms:

Collect data from applications

To collect data from applications on your Cluster, you can use any of these methods:

Select the option during configuration to include Application Observability.
Add an integration compatible with Kubernetes Monitoring to gather Prometheus metrics. To view the available integrations, navigate to the Configuration page, and click the Integrations tab.
In cases where an integration is not available for your program, refer to Scraping application metrics.