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This page describes metrics collection from Google Kubernetes Engine clusters using
Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus.
About Prometheus
Prometheusis a leading open-source
tool for monitoring and alerting, and is a standard tool for Kubernetes
monitoring.
Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheusis the Google Cloud fully-managed solution for
Prometheus. It lets you globally monitor and alert on your workloads, using
Prometheus, without having to manually manage and operate Prometheus at scale.
Metrics collection
Managed collectionof metrics by
Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus is enabled by default when you create a cluster. You
can enable managed collection on existing clusters.
By default, GKE clusters sendsystem metrics.
You can also enable additional observability metrics packages for a cluster.
For information about the types of metrics you can collect, seeManage GKE metrics.
What's next
Viewobservability metricsfor clusters and workloads in
predefined GKE dashboards in the Google Cloud console. You can
also create recommended GKE alerts and view logs for events.
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