Lesson 4.1

Monitoring and logs

Container logs vanish with the container. Ship them somewhere, scrape metrics, and alert on what users would notice.

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Overview

What this lesson covers

  • Aggregate logs off ephemeral pods
  • Scrape and dashboard cluster and app metrics
  • Alert on user-visible symptoms

This lesson sits in Operating a Cluster, part of DevOps with Docker and Kubernetes. It assumes what came before it and leads directly into the next lesson in the module.


In this lesson you will:

  • Aggregate logs off ephemeral pods
  • Scrape and dashboard cluster and app metrics
  • Alert on user-visible symptoms