Monitoring and Logging Kubernetes Clusters and Applications
This chapter describes how to monitor Kubernetes cluster components and applications and get infrastructure-level, system-level, and application-level logs to serve as a source for log analytics or further troubleshooting. Together with the next two chapters about troubleshooting cluster components and applications and troubleshooting Kubernetes security and networking, it covers 30% of the CKA exam content.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following topics:
- Monitoring on a cluster node
- Monitoring applications on a Kubernetes cluster
- Managing logs at the cluster node and pod levels
- Managing container
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