The Kubernetes Monitoring interface provides real-time visibility into your Kubernetes cluster. The left sidebar lets you switch between different resource types, and each list uses color-coded progress bars to highlight resource utilization.
Monitoring Views
The sidebar on the left lists all available resource types. Click any to switch views:
- Pods (Default): CPU and memory utilization with request/limit percentages per pod
- Containers: Per-container CPU, memory, restarts, and health inside each pod
- Nodes: CPU and memory usage vs allocatable capacity per node
- Namespaces: Resource usage aggregated per namespace
- Clusters: Resource allocation and capacity across clusters
- Deployments: Availability, CPU, and memory across deployment pods
- Jobs: Active, successful, and failed pod counts with resource usage
- DaemonSets: Available vs desired nodes with resource usage
- StatefulSets: Available vs desired pods with resource utilization
- Volumes: PersistentVolumeClaim usage, capacity, and inodes
Common Controls
All Kubernetes views share these controls:
Quick Filters Sidebar
The left sidebar provides filter checkboxes for narrowing results. Available filters vary by view but commonly include:
- Pod, Namespace, Node, Cluster
- Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet, Job
- Environment
Each filter section is expandable, supports search, and allows multi-select with "Only" toggle and "Clear All" options.
Search Filter
The search bar at the top lets you query entities by any attribute using the query builder.
Group By
Use the Group By dropdown to group entities by an attribute such as k8s.node.name, k8s.namespace.name, k8s.deployment.name, or k8s.cluster.name. When a group is selected, the table displays group header rows that you can expand to see individual entities within each group.
Columns Selector
Click the columns icon in the toolbar to open the Columns panel. It shows the currently added columns and lets you add or remove columns to customize the table view.
Detail Page
Click any entity name to open its detail page. Most entities have four tabs: Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Events, so you can correlate infrastructure performance with application behavior. Volumes is the exception: its detail page shows only the Metrics tab.
Next steps
- Setup Kubernetes Metrics: Configure the kubeletstats and k8scluster receivers to start collecting data.
- Telemetry Data Requirements: Required resource attributes and metrics.
