Summary
In this chapter, we learned about observability on Kubernetes. We first learned about the four major tenets of observability: metrics, logging, traces, and alerts. Then we discovered how Kubernetes itself provides tooling for observability, including how it manages logs and resource metrics and how to deploy Kubernetes Dashboard. Finally, we learned how to implement and use some key open source tools to provide visualization, searching, and alerting for the four pillars. This knowledge will help you build robust observability infrastructure for your future Kubernetes clusters and help you decide what is most important to observe in your cluster.
In the next chapter, we will use what we learned about observability to help us troubleshoot applications on Kubernetes.
