Optimal Kubernetes Performance: 15 Metrics Every DevOps Team Should Track

Managing Kubernetes at scale challenges DevOps teams, especially in identifying key metrics among hundreds. Without a focused strategy, teams risk pod failures, resource bottlenecks, scheduling issues, and degraded performance.

This white paper offers a framework for Kubernetes monitoring, organizing 15 essential metrics into three categories to maintain cluster health and optimize resources:

• Cluster state metrics like node status and pod availability highlight reliability issues early.
• Resource metrics for memory, CPU, and disk aid capacity planning and prevent downtime.
• Control plane metrics reveal the health of etcd and the API server.

Explore all metrics in the full white paper.