In this section, we will use Google Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring to monitor, isolate, and diagnose our containerized applications and microservices environments. You will learn how to use Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring to aggregate logs, events, and metrics from your Kubernetes environment on GKE to help you understand your application's behavior in production.
Getting ready
Make sure you have a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster ready and kubectl configured to manage the cluster resources. If you don't have one, you can follow the instructions in Chapter 1, Building Production-Ready Kubernetes Clusters, in the Configuring a Kubernetes cluster on Google Cloud Platform recipe.
How to do it…
This section is further divided into the following subsections to make this process easier:
- Installing Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring support for GKE
- Configuring a workspace on Stackdriver
- Viewing GKE...