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What does prometheus node exporter collects from within a pod? I was under impression that to collect node stats you absolutely need to be "outside" any contain
by deepsun 8y ago
What does prometheus node exporter collects from within a pod? I was under impression that to collect node stats you absolutely need to be "outside" any container, i.e. using prometheus-k8s integration so that it pulls nodes stats from k8s api, not nodes themselves).
- regnerba 8y agoNot an expert, and this may have changed since I deployed this, but I based most of our deployment on the Prometheus helm chart. The helm charts include this: https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable/prometheus-node-exporter https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable/prometheus...
- halbritt 8y agoThe kube-state-metrics service runs as part of the kubernetes API and provides container metrics. It replaces heapster. The node exporter runs as a daemonset on each node and provides node specific metrics like CPU, memory, disk IO, network IO, etc. The node metrics comes from the node itself.