Kubelet Metrics: How cAdvisor and CRI Collect Kubernetes Stats

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  1. node_exporter

    Exporter for machine metrics

    The Prometheus Node Exporter is commonly used to collect these fundamental metrics, but they originate from the operating system itself.

  2. AppSignal

    Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.

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  3. enhancements

    Enhancements tracking repo for Kubernetes

    cgroup v1 has been officially deprecated since Kubernetes v1.35. As part of KEP-5573, kubelet now fails by default on cgroup v1 nodes unless failCgroupV1 is explicitly set to false, with full code removal planned no earlier than Kubernetes v1.38.

  4. containerd

    An open and reliable container runtime

    Containerd handles its end of the driver selection agreement through its configuration file in /etc/containerd/config.toml through the SystemdCgroup parameter:

  5. kubernetes

    Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

    The runtime exposes stats through CRI RPC methods.

  6. cri-api

    Container Runtime Interface (CRI) – a plugin interface which enables kubelet to use a wide variety of container runtimes.

    cri-api

  7. cri-dockerd

    dockerd as a compliant Container Runtime Interface for Kubernetes

    cri-dockerd adapter for docker

  8. cadvisor

    Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.

    manager.go

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. kata-containers

    Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/

    container-stats exporter to the Kata Containers

  11. gRPC

    C++ based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)

    gRPC

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