17 Powerful Tools to effectively monitor your Kubernetes Clusters
Tags: devops, kubernetes, devjournal, programming
Published: 2023-04-04 02:31:00

Get the most out of your Kubernetes deployment with these 17 powerful monitoring tools:

## 1. Botkube.io
 
Its integration with Slack or Mattermost helps you monitor your Kubernetes cluster, debug critical deployments and give recommendations for standard practices by running checks on the Kubernetes resources.

🔗 https://botkube.io


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## 2. GetCortexApp
 
It provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant and long-term storage for Prometheus.

🔗 https://cortex.io


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## 3. Goldilocks

It creates a vertical pod autoscaler for each deployment in a namespace and then queries them for information.

🔗 https://fairwinds.com/blog/introducing-goldilocks-a-tool-for-recommending-resource-requests


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## 4. Grafana
 
It allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored.

🔗  https://grafana.com


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## 5. KialiProject
 

It works with Istio to visualise the service mesh topology. 

🔗 https://kiali.io


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## 6. kube-capacity

It is a simple CLI that provides an overview of the resource requests, limits and utilization in a Kubernetes cluster. 

🔗 https://github.com/robscott/kube-capacity


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## 7. kube-state-metrics

It is a simple service that listens to the Kubernetes API server and generates metrics about the state of the objects. 

🔗 https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics


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## 8. Kubernetes Dashboard

It is a general-purpose, web-based UI for Kubernetes clusters. 

🔗 https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/web-ui-dashboard/


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## 9. Kubernetes Metrics Server

It is a scalable, efficient source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes built-in autoscaling pipelines.

🔗 https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server


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## 10. Kubernetes Operational View

It is a tool that aims to provide a common operational picture for multiple Kubernetes clusters. 

🔗 https://github.com/hjacobs/kube-ops-view

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## 11. kubewatch

It is a Kubernetes watcher that currently publishes notifications to available collaboration hubs/ notification channels. 

🔗 https://github.com/vmware-archive/kubewatch


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## 12. Lens

It is a useful, attractive, open-source user interface (UI) for working with Kubernetes clusters.

🔗 https://k8slens.dev


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## 13. Popeye

It is a utility that scans live Kubernetes clusters and reports potential issues with deployed resources and configurations. 

🔗 https://github.com/derailed/popeye


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## 14. Prometheus

A Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, it is a systems and service monitoring system. 

🔗 https://dynatrace.com/monitoring/technologies/prometheus-monitoring/


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## 15. Searchlight

It periodically runs various checks on a Kubernetes cluster and sends notifications if detects an issue.

🔗 https://appscode.com/products/searchlight/


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## 16. Sloop

It monitors Kubernetes, recording histories of events and resource state changes and providing visualizations to aid in debugging past events.

🔗 https://github.com/salesforce/sloop


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## 17. Thanos

It is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity.

🔗 https://thanos.io


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Overall, there are many tools available that can help you monitor your Kubernetes cluster. You can choose the one that best fits your needs and requirements.

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