Kubernetes: Monitoring with Prometheus

Learn how Prometheus—an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit—pairs with Kubernetes and works to monitor distributed systems.

Introduction

• Prometheus monitoring to prevent outages
• What you should know

1. Enable Prometheus Monitoring

• Logging vs. monitoring
• Monitoring Kubernetes
• Enabling Prometheus monitoring, part 1
• Enabling Prometheus monitoring, part 2

2. Monitoring Kubernetes Systems

• Capturing Kubernetes infrastructure data
• Capturing container data with cAdvisor

3. Prometheus Basics

• Monitoring application-specific data
• Adding sidecar containers for app data
• Discovering collections

4. Prometheus Math

• Filtering and combining metrics
• Finding top talkers

5. Graphing

• Displaying metrics in the web console
• Using Grafana as a dashboard

6. Using Metrics Data

• Creating alerts in Prometheus
• Generating application-driven alerts

Conclusion

• Next steps