Kubernetes Monitoring Tools

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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

SignalFX is Real-Time Cloud Monitoring and Observability for Infrastructure, Microservices and Applications. SignalFX was acquired by Splunk in August 2019. SignalFX Infrastructure Monitoring provides real-time cloud monitoring and observability platform for infrastructure, microservices…

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New Relic

New Relic is a SaaS-based web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. They provide code-level diagnostics for dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments and real time monitoring.

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Dynatrace

Dynatrace is an APM scaled for enterprises with cloud, on-premise, and hybrid application and SaaS monitoring. Dynatrace uses AI-supported algorithms to provide continual APM self-learning and predictive alerts for proactive issue resolution.

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New Relic

New Relic is a SaaS-based web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. They provide code-level diagnostics for dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments and real time monitoring.

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IBM Instana

Instana, an IBM company since the December 2020 acquisition, provides APM services for SOA, microservices, containerized applications and Kubernetes, and cloud native applications, as well as discovery and monitoring for IT assets.

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Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

SignalFX is Real-Time Cloud Monitoring and Observability for Infrastructure, Microservices and Applications. SignalFX was acquired by Splunk in August 2019. SignalFX Infrastructure Monitoring provides real-time cloud monitoring and observability platform for infrastructure, microservices…

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Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.

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ManageEngine Site24x7

Site24x7 from ManageEngine is a full-stack application, website, server, cloud and network monitoring tool. Site24x7 offers code-level diagnostics and customizable error thresholds, end-to-end monitoring with topology visualization tools, and mobile accessibility.

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Sumo Logic

Sumo Logic is a log management offering from the San Francisco based company of the same name.

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NetApp Cloud Insights

NetApp Cloud Insights is an infrastructure monitoring tool that gives users visibility into their complete infrastructure. With Cloud Insights, users can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all resources including public clouds and private data centers.

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Elastic Observability

Elastic Observability, from Elastic, the makers of Elasticsearch, is a solution that aims to bring logs, metrics, and APM based on the former Opbeat (acquired by Elastic in 2017) traces together at scale in a single stack so users can monitor and react to events happening anywhere…

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Sensu, by Sumo Logic

Sensu, now from Sumo Logic (acquired in June of 2021) is presented as a future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale. The Sensu monitoring event pipeline is used by businesses to automate their monitoring workflows and gain visibility into their multi-cloud environments.…

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IBM Cloud Monitoring

IBM Cloud Monitoring service is a fully managed monitoring service for administrators, DevOps teams and developers, offering deep container visibility and comprehensive metrics to help users reduce costs and better manage the software lifecycle.

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Sysdig Platform Architecture

Sysdig Platform Architecture is a unified security and compliance platform for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud.

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Jetstack Secure

Jetstack Secure (formerly Jetsack Preflight) manages machine identities across Cloud Native Kubernetes and OpenShift environments and builds a detailed view of the enterprise security posture.

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Bleemeo
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Bleemeo is a Cloud Monitoring Platform that allows DevOps and IT teams to monitor their infrastructure from the servers to the applications. Bleemeo aims to give a complete live picture of the user's infrastructure, in 30 seconds: - agent discovers services and creates checks and…

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Lumigo
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Lumigo is a monitoring and debugging platform for cloud and serverless applications. It is used to identify and resolve critical issues in distributed environments using smart monitoring, alerting, and end-to-end automated tracing. Users can query and filter data to surface relevant…

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Middleware
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Middleware is a unified cloud observability platform that brings metrics, logs, and traces to one single timeline so the dev and ops teams can debug and fix issues faster. The benefits of Middleware as provided include: - Unified dashboard - No unexpected cost, flat pricing.…

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Circonus
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Circonus is a monitoring and analytics platform built for enterprises, that delivers real-time visibility of the behavior, health, trends, and performance of infrastructure and cloud-based technologies. It uses telemetry data at scale throughout the enterprise to drive operations.…

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Kubernetes Dashboard

Dashboard is a web-based Kubernetes user interface. Dashboard can be used to deploy containerized applications to a Kubernetes cluster, troubleshoot containerized application, and manage the cluster resources. Dashboard can also be used to get an overview of applications running…

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OpsCruise
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OpsCruise is a cloud applications performance assurance company, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. They aim to support production operations (Ops) teams to proactively and continuously assure the performance of their applications.

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Kubermatic
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Kubernetes' Kubermatic Platform helps automate operations of Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud, on-premise.

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Spectro Cloud
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Spectro Cloud provides a complete and integrated platform that enables organizations to easily manage the full lifecycle of any combination of new or existing, small or large, simple or complex Kubernetes environments whether in a datacenter or the cloud.

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Jaeger
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Jaeger is an open source, end-to-end distributed tracing tool that enables users to monitor and troubleshoot transactions in complex distributed systems. It can be downloaded as executable binaries, or as Docker images, and is available free under the CC BY 4.0.

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Sysdig Secure
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Sysdig headquartered in San Francisco offers the Sysdig Platform, providing end-to-end container vulnerability management, threat blocking, and container application security.

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Komodor
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Komodor is a Kubernetes-native troubleshooting platform that tracks all changes across the entire K8s stack and analyzes their ripple effect, to provide users with actionable context that can be used to troubleshoot more efficiently and independently.

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Sysdig Monitor

Sysdig Monitor provides Kubernetes and cloud monitoring with full Prometheus compatibility. Users can collect business and application metrics leveraging Prometheus, statsd, or jmx, and visualize custom metrics alongside infrastructure metrics that are automatically collected by…

Learn More About Kubernetes Monitoring Tools

What are Kubernetes Monitoring Tools?

Kubernetes Monitoring Tools track the performance of Kubernetes container deployments. Kubernetes automates software deployment, scaling, and management. It is an open-source container orchestration framework available in Azure, AWS, and Google clouds. These monitoring tools reduce the complexity of overseeing production container deployments and help scale applications, promote reliable service, identify, and debug operating issues.

The tools monitor the performance of clusters and individual pods. They monitor overall cluster resource utilization and examine how its nodes are performing, the number of nodes available, and how many pods and applications are running on each node. Pod metrics capture their health, how much CPU, network bandwidth, disk usage, and memory they are using compared to their maximum limits.

These monitoring tools rely on services to communicate with individual pods and containers as they are created and deleted. By capturing information about pods and their application resource utilization, the tools help evaluate application performance and contribute to performance improvements. The tools ascertain whether the desired number of pods are running and available for application requirements. When issues are encountered in Kubernetes services, they are alerted and when possible, automatically corrected.

These tools are used by DevOps teams to consistently deliver high-quality performance for Kubernetes applications and services.

Kubernetes Monitoring Tools Features

Kubernetes Monitoring Tools offer many of these features.

  • Full Kubernetes stack monitoring
  • Monitor the health of clusters, nodes, pods, and containers
  • Measure resource utilization, CPU, memory, bandwidth, disk, and API latency
  • Auto-discovery of all containers
  • Identify problematic workloads, pending, and failed pods
  • Identify and prioritize application alerts
  • Automated error correction when possible
  • AI-assisted troubleshooting
  • Cluster, node, pod, container, and application metrics
  • Availability metrics
  • Scaling metrics
  • Cost metrics by product, application, and cluster
  • Custom scripts
  • Data visualization
  • Dashboards for monitoring, troubleshooting, and analytics

Kubernetes Monitoring Tools Comparison

When purchasing Kubernetes Monitoring Tools consider the following.

Scope: Dedicated and full-featured Kubernetes Monitoring Tools are available. In addition, vendors offer broader observability suites that can monitor, troubleshoot, and help optimize all resources and applications across a technology stack, be it cloud-based, or on-premises.

Tool Synergy: Combing Kubernetes tools that capture metrics with those that provide data visualization, such as joining Prometheus with Grafana is a popular approach to Kubernetes monitoring,

Pricing Information

Depending on the tool and its features, pricing models are based on the number of nodes the tool must monitor or else a flat monthly rate. Monthly by node pricing is usually several dollars a month per node, with introductory pricing for basic tools in the range of $15 to $30 a month. Larger installations must request a price quote. Limited free tools are available and are best suited for testing or small projects. Free trials are available.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What do Kubernetes monitoring tools do?

Kubernetes monitoring tools monitor the production performance of Kubernetes deployments. The tools help manage the complexity of the container environment and help ensure it is operating efficiently and meeting service level agreements. The metrics it gathers by monitoring clusters, nodes, pods, and applications are used to scale resources to optimize the execution of Kubernetes applications and troubleshoot any issues.

What are the benefits of using Kubernetes monitoring tools?

Kubernetes monitoring tools provide real-time insights into the production performance of container applications, alert operations as to resource issues, and help to quickly troubleshoot and resolve problems. They optimize application performance and help deliver consistent and high-performing Kubernetes services.

How much do Kubernetes monitoring tools cost?

Pricing is either by a fixed monthly rate or the number of nodes the tools must monitor. The cost is a few dollars a month per node with introductory pricing starting in the range of $15 to $30 a month. Price quotes are required for larger operations. Free tools with limited capacity and features are available. Free trials are available.