Monitor VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Clusters with New Relic

New Relic has validated its Kubernetes monitoring integration for VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) 3.6, enabling VMware Cloud Foundation customers to observe CNCF-conformant Kubernetes workloads alongside virtual machines and applications on a shared platform. The integration provides visibility into cluster, node, pod, and container health together with application performance, logs, and traces, helping platform engineers, SREs, and developers investigate issues without switching among separate tools. It supports VKS 3.x, vSphere Supervisor versions 9.0 through 9.1, vSphere 8.x and 9.x, and deployment through Helm 3 on clusters with at least one Linux node. New Relic also collects selected vCenter data covering hosts, virtual machines, datastores, and clusters, while its alerts, dashboards, and AI capabilities can be used with VKS monitoring data. The announcement emphasizes the potential cost of outages, cited at an average of $1.85 million per hour in New Relic’s 2026 Observability Forecast, and directs users to confirm compatibility, install the Kubernetes integration, and access cluster views through New Relic.

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