Describe how the monitoring solution you are working with monitors Kubernetes and
Answer
This very much depends on what you chose to use. Let's address some of the solutions:
- metrics-server: an open source and free monitoring solution that uses the cAdvisor component of kubelet to retrieve information on the cluster and its resources and stores them in-memory.
Once installed, after some time you can run commands like
kubectl top nodeandkubectl top podto view performance metrics on nodes, pods and other resources.
TODO: add more monitoring solutions