A Complete Introduction to Monitoring Kubernetes with New Relic

Monitoring Kubernetes 101: Discover the fundamentals of what you need to know to effectively monitor Kubernetes deployments

Published March 2019

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Before Kubernetes took over the world, cluster administrators, DevOps engineers, application developers, and operations teams had to perform many manual tasks in order to schedule, deploy, and manage their containerized applications. The rise of the Kubernetes container orchestration platform has altered many of these responsibilities, but these same teams now have new things to worry about.

In effect, while Kubernetes solves old problems, it can also create new ones. Specifically, adopting containers and container orchestration requires teams to rethink and adapt their monitoring strategies to account for the new infrastructure layers introduced in a distributed Kubernetes environment.

This guide is designed to highlight the fundamentals of what you need to know to effectively monitor Kubernetes deployments. Think of it as Monitoring Kubernetes 101.