This dashboard displays specific event and object kind counts, as well as their respective time-series charts, allowing the viewer to understand what's happening inside a cluster at a glance.
To use this dashboard, ensure you are collecting Kubernetes events. You must install the k8s-infra Helm chart and configure Kubernetes events collection.
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What This Dashboard Monitors
This dashboard tracks Kubernetes events to provide a high-level view of cluster activities, specifically distinguishing between different event reasons and resource kinds.
Metrics Included
Overview
- Event Count: Total number of events and trend over time.
Resource-Specific Events
- Deployments: Current count and time-series of deployment-related events.
- Pods vs Deployments: Comparative view of events affecting Pods versus Deployments.
- Bootcamp Container: Specific field path monitoring for container specs.
Event Reasons
- Pulled Images: Count and trend of image pulling events.
- Scaling: Metrics for
ScalingReplicaSetevents. - Scheduling: Count of
Scheduledevents. - Lifecycle Events:
- Successful Create: Count of successful resource creation events.
- Successful Delete: Count of successful deletion events.
- Killing: Count of pod termination events.
- Pulled vs Created: Comparison of image pull events vs successful pod creation events.
Next Steps
- Set Alerts: Create alerts for critical events such as pod failures, scaling issues, or image pull errors.
- Explore Logs: Correlate events with logs to troubleshoot issues effectively.