Making Sense of Your Vital Signals: The Future of Pod and Containers Monitoring

This presentation delves into the critical aspects of monitoring container and pod health within Kubernetes. Speakers David Porter and Peter Hunt explain how metrics originate, are measured, and processed, tracing the pipeline from Linux kernel cgroups to Prometheus dashboards. They discuss the ongoing community effort to shift container metrics away from cAdvisor to the container runtime (Kubernetes Enhancement 2371) and how this will improve performance and unlock new features for users and cluster administrators.