In part one of this series, I discussed the rise of microservice architecture and the reliance on Kubernetes and Docker for container orchestration and management. I also shared some of the challenges these new technologies present and what sources of data we need in order to effectively monitor our Kubernetes environments. In my concluding comments, I mentioned that Prometheus provides an excellent starting point for collecting and analyzing this data. In this post, I’ll give a brief overview of Prometheus, illustrate how to collect Kubernetes data with Prometheus, and discuss some of the pros and cons of the Prometheus approach.
In the next installment of this series, I’ll address some of those cons, illustrating how Sensu and Prometheus are complementary.