Kubernetes
Practical
By Samson Tanimawo, PhD
Published Sep 11, 2025
4 min read
Cluster Monitoring Coverage
What to monitor on every cluster.
Live workflow · 3 working · 1 queuedLive
Signal · gather Working
Decide · pick action Working
Apply · with verify Working
Learn · update playbook Queued
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.