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Date Published
Author
Stephen Lang
Word count
1268
Language
English
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None

Summary

Grafana Cloud's latest update to its Kubernetes Monitoring solution introduces a new Storage tab designed to provide comprehensive visibility into Kubernetes storage volumes, enhancing the ability to track volume usage, conduct data forensic analysis, and troubleshoot provisioning issues. This feature offers a unified view of storage metrics, encompassing PersistentVolumes, PersistentVolumeClaims, and StorageClasses, through prebuilt panels and PromQL queries that visualize relationships between pods and volumes. The tab is accessible at various levels, from pod to cluster, offering insights into the capacity and usage of storage resources. Additionally, the update includes alert overlays from the kubernetes-mixin project, with alerts for volume filling and errors, helping users identify and address potential issues more efficiently. The integration of metrics from Prometheus exporters like kube-state-metrics, Kubelet, and cAdvisor further enriches the monitoring experience, with plans to incorporate file system metrics in future updates to optimize cost-effective storage class selection based on real-world data.