Kubernetes Monitoring Best Practices: A Comprehensive Guide for DevOps and SREs
The blog post explores seven essential best practices for Kubernetes monitoring, guiding DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) in developing robust monitoring strategies. It differentiates between monitoring and observability, emphasizing the importance of defining clear objectives, identifying critical metrics, selecting appropriate tools, and implementing comprehensive monitoring across system and application levels. The guide covers key aspects such as choosing between open-source and commercial solutions, monitoring the monitoring system itself, managing data storage, tracking the Kubernetes control plane, and integrating monitoring with incident response.