DocumentationGrafana CloudMonitor infrastructureKubernetes MonitoringConfigure Kubernetes Monitoring

Configure Kubernetes Monitoring

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

Configure with Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart

To send infrastructure data to Grafana Cloud, it is easiest to 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.

You can also add on these configurations:

• Windows Nodes on an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
• OTel
• Application metrics scraping

Upgrade from Grafana Agent or Agent Operator

If you have already configured with either Agent static mode or Agent Operator, you can upgrade and migrate to Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart with the following method:

• Upgrade from Agent static mode to Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart.
• Upgrade from Agent Operator to Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart.

Configure by other methods

There are other methods you can use to configure Kubernetes Monitoring, including:

• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
• Helm and Ansible
• Helm and Argo CD
• Helm and Terraform
• remote-write from Prometheus installations
• Kube-Promtethus Helm stack migration