Metrics reported by Kubernetes

Kubernetes has a dashboard add-on, which is really cool and shows many metrics in a consumable form. However, it is a serious security risk and requires complicated configuration to set up securely.

We won't be installing it, as you get the same benefit, without the hassle from Azure Kubernetes Monitoring itself. If you still want to do it, please see https://blog.heptio.com/on-securing-the-kubernetes-dashboard-16b09b1b7aca.

We are going to list the metrics available by kubectl.

Node status and consumption

Run the following command to get information about the nodes on the cluster:

kubectl get nodes

The following lists their name, status, and age:

NAME                       STATUS    ROLES...