Grafana Cloud Monitor infrastructure Kubernetes Monitoring Configure Kubernetes Monitoring

Configure Kubernetes Monitoring

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

Prepare for configuration

The following items can be part of your configuration, depending on your needs:

• kube-state-metrics: A service that generated metrics from Kubernetes API objects, and uses client-go to communicate with Clusters. For Kubernetes client-go version compatibility and any other related details, refer to kube-state-metrics.
• Node exporter: Exports Prometheus metrics that indicate the health and state of nodes in a Cluster. For details, refer to Node exporter.
• OpenCost: Calculates Kubernetes infrastructure and container costs. Requires Kubernetes 1.8+ clusters.
• Windows Exporter: Exports Prometheus metrics for Windows machines. Requires Kubernetes 1.22+. Refer to windows_exporter on Kubernetes for any additional requirements.

Send metrics, logs, events, and cost metrics with Grafana Agent Flow mode

To send infrastructure data to Grafana Cloud, it is easiest to configure with Agent Flow mode. With this method, you can send metrics, logs, events, traces, and cost metrics.

Upgrade from Grafana Agent or Agent Operator

If you have already configured with either Agent static mode or Agent Operator, you can upgrade with the appropriate method:

• Upgrade from Agent static mode to Agent Flow mode.
• Upgrade from Agent Operator to Agent Flow mode.

Configure manually for infrastructure data

If you are already collecting telemetry data for your infrastructure and want to send it to Grafana Cloud, refer to the options available in Configure manually for infrastructure.

Configure manually for application data

To receive and send telemetry data to Grafana Cloud for an application in Kubernetes, refer to Configure manually for applications.