Kubernetes Api Performance Metrics: Examples And Best Practices
Red Hat News, Thursday, February 15th, 2024
Kubernetes monitoring helps engineers (SRE, performance, and DevOps) to identify performance issues, including insufficient resources, high CPU usage, and pod failures, across a Kubernetes (K8s) environment.
Prometheus simplifies the management of your containerized applications by tracking uptime, cluster resource utilization, and interactions among cluster components. This article provides an overview of essential API-related metrics you should be collecting, and the best practices for monitoring them.
To get a better understanding of API performance metrics, you need to know how Kubernetes application workloads are created, and how they run on Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.