Grafana dashboard: Pods - Metrics Server Monitor Prometheus
Description: Container/node usage exporter that collects data from heapster/metrics-server using low resources. An alternative to prometheus/node_exporter.

This and https://grafana.com/dashboards/8754 is a Grafana Dashboard for https://github.com/AdrianBalcan/metrics-server-monitor-prometheus

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