Kubernetes Monitoring Tools: Four Questions, Three Sources
Kubernetes monitoring tools split by which question they answer, not by rank. Here is what metrics-server, cAdvisor and kube-state-metrics each see.
10 posts tagged "Observability".
Kubernetes monitoring tools split by which question they answer, not by rank. Here is what metrics-server, cAdvisor and kube-state-metrics each see.
A Grafana uptime panel usually measures scrape success, not what users experienced. Here are the queries, and how to put an outside-in series beside them.
Docker monitoring tools split by data source: engine state, cgroup counters, the log driver, and the one check that runs outside the host.
Application monitoring runs from three vantage points - inside the process, on the host and out on the internet - and each one is blind where the others see.
Observability is what your telemetry lets you ask, monitoring is the set of questions you already wrote down, and only one of them survives a dead host.
Infrastructure monitoring is defined by how data is collected, not which metrics you chart. Here is which layer each method reaches and which it cannot.