Azure Monitor metrics and logs

Previously in this chapter, you explored the status and metrics of nodes and pods in your cluster using the kubectl command-line tool. In Azure, you can get more metrics from nodes and pods and explore the logs from pods in your cluster. Let's start by exploring AKS Insights in the Azure portal.

AKS Insights

The Insights section of the AKS pane provides most of the metrics you need to know about your cluster. It also has the ability to drill down to the container level. You can also see the logs of the container.

Note:

The Insights section of the AKS pane relies on Azure Monitor for containers. If you created the cluster using the portal defaults, this is enabled by default.

Kubernetes makes metrics available but doesn't store them. Azure Monitor can be used to store these metrics and make them available to query over time. To collect the relevant metrics and logs into Insights, Azure connects to the Kubernetes API to collect...