7. Monitoring the AKS cluster and the application
Now that you know how to deploy applications on an AKS cluster, let's focus on how you can ensure your cluster and applications remain available. In this chapter, you will learn how to monitor your cluster and the applications running on it. You'll explore how Kubernetes makes sure that your applications are running reliably using readiness and liveness probes.
You will also learn how Azure Monitor is used, and how it is integrated within the Azure portal, as well as how to set up alerts for critical events on your AKS cluster. You will see how you can use Azure Monitor to monitor the status of the cluster itself, the Pods on the cluster and get access to the logs of the Pods at scale.
In brief, the following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Monitoring and debugging applications using
kubectl
- Reviewing metrics reported by Kubernetes
- Reviewing metrics from Azure Monitor
Let's start...