Kubernetes Practical By Samson Tanimawo, PhD Published Sep 11, 2025 4 min read

Cluster Monitoring Coverage

What to monitor on every cluster.

Control plane

API latency. Etcd latency. Scheduler queue.

Health of cluster operations.

Nodes

CPU, memory, disk. Kubelet health.

Per-node and aggregate.

Pods

Restart counts. Eviction events. Resource utilization.

Per-namespace and aggregate.