Grafana dashboard: Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler (via Prometheus)
Description: Super simple dashboard showing an overview of kubernetes cluster autoscaling activity and status, using metrics reported by the autoscaler to prometheus.

https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster-autoscaler

Super simple dashboard showing an overview of [kubernetes cluster autoscaling](https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster-autoscaler) activity and status.

Currently only tested with v0.6 of the cluster-autoscaler - we'll be upgrading to v1.0 shortly.

The dashboard is driven using the data reported by the cluster-autoscaler /metrics endpoint.
You'll have to make sure this is exposed on the deployment and create a service + serviceMonitor for your autoscaler in order to have prometheus scrape the endpoint.

I made this because I couldn't find one - if you find/make a better one please [ping me](https://gist.github.com/tyrannasaurusbanks/f842924b45e7ea29875fe2919e501692)



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