Monitor Cluster Components Take me to Video Tutuorials In this section, we will take a look at monitoring kubernetes cluster How do you monitor resource consumption in kubernetes? or more importantly, what would you like to monitor? Heapster vs Metrics Server Heapster is now deprecated and a slimmed down version was formed known as the metrics server. Metrics Server How are the metrics generated for the PODs on these nodes? Metrics Server - Getting Started Clone the metric server from github repo $ git clone https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/metrics-server.git Deploy the metric server $ kubectl create -f metric-server/deploy/1.8+/ View the cluster performance $ kubectl top node View performance metrics of pod $ kubectl top pod