Grafana dashboard: Kubernetes / Capacity Planning / Limits
Description: Provides information relevant to fine-tuning container resource limits in Kubernetes

Setting up container resource limits in Kubernetes is not trivial. In order to fine-tune these values one should be aware of (among other things):
1. available resources
2. usage of the resources relative to the limits

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