What is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and, management of containerized applications. The New Relic Kubernetes (Prometheus) monitoring quickstart utilizes Prometheus to give you visibility into your Kubernetes clusters and workloads in minutes, whether your clusters are hosted on-premises or in the cloud. Follow the instructions here to install the New Relic Kubernetes integration.

What is Prometheus?

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit.

Kubernetes (Prometheus) quickstart highlights

The New Relic Prometheus quickstart for Kubernetes utilizes the New Relic Prometheus agent to build dashboards that allow you to proactively monitor your metrics, like:

• memory and cpu utilization
• running pods and containers
• kubelet pod start metrics
• compute resources by pod, node, cluster, and namespace and more.

Requirements

• Follow the instructions here to install the New Relic Prometheus agent.
• **The default installation of the New Relic Prometheus configurator does not enable all of the metrics needed to work with this quickstart's dashboards. Follow the instructions here to enable those metrics.