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Introduction

Explore the basics of Kubernetes monitoring by examining the limitations of the Metrics Server. Learn how to collect richer metrics, query them effectively, and create alerting systems to detect and respond to issues, laying the foundation for self-adaptive Kubernetes clusters.

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

-Spock

Short recap

So far, we explored how to leverage some of Kubernetes’s core features. We used HorizontalPodAutoscaler and Cluster Autoscaler. While the former relies on Metrics Server, the latter is not based on metrics, but on Scheduler’s inability to place Pods within the existing cluster capacity. Even though Metrics Server does provide some basic ...