What is a simple, free monitoring tool for a Kubernetes cluster?

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  • agent

    Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines. (by grafana)

  • You install the Grafana Agent which is basically a bundled copy of Prometheus, Loki, and other tools. It's open source, so you can be sure about what it's doing.

  • operator

    Kubernetes operator for Victoria Metrics (by VictoriaMetrics)

  • For metrics there is VictoriaMetrics operator and helm chart, which can be used for monitoring Kubernetes. See this guide.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • helm-charts

    Helm charts for VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs and ecosystem (by VictoriaMetrics)

  • For metrics there is VictoriaMetrics operator and helm chart, which can be used for monitoring Kubernetes. See this guide.

  • lens

    Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes

  • I think Lens (https://k8slens.dev/) would be a good option. Just add the local kube config and your good to go. If needed it can install a metrics server from the configuration screen.

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