Node Exporter and Kubernetes Guide

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  • node_exporter

    Exporter for machine metrics

    wget https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v*/node_exporter-*.*-amd64.tar.gz tar xvfz node_exporter-*.*-amd64.tar.gz cd node_exporter-*.*-amd64 ./node_exporter

  • prometheus

    The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

    The most popular service that tags and exports metrics in Kubernetes is Node Exporter by Prometheus, an open source service that installs through a single static binary. Node Exporter monitors a host by exposing its hardware and OS metrics which Prometheus pulls from.

  • 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.

  • cadvisor

    Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.

    Note that CAdvisor, Google’s solution for natively monitoring Kubernetes, can also be used alongside Prometheus to view metrics out of the box. You can explore the metrics through the CAdvisor web UI.

  • Grafana

    The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

    You should see Prometheus, Grafana, which is an included open-source analytics platform, node-exporter, and kube-state-metrics on the Pods.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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