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Monitoring

The Monitoring add-on provides Grafana dashboards and Prometheus metrics collection for your kubestart cluster.

Enable monitoring

Section titled “Enable monitoring”

If you haven’t already, enable the Monitoring add-on from your cluster’s detail page. See Manage Add-ons for instructions.

Access Grafana

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Once the Monitoring add-on is active, a Grafana link appears on your cluster detail page. Click it to open the Grafana web interface.

Grafana is pre-configured with:

  • A Prometheus data source connected to your cluster’s metrics.
  • Pre-built dashboards for Kubernetes resource usage.

Pre-built dashboards

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kubestart includes dashboards for common monitoring needs:

DashboardWhat it shows
Cluster OverviewNode health, resource utilisation, pod counts
Pod ResourcesCPU and memory usage per pod
NetworkingTraffic rates, connection counts, DNS metrics

Create custom dashboards

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You can create your own dashboards in Grafana:

  1. Click + → New Dashboard in the Grafana sidebar.
  2. Add panels using the Prometheus data source.
  3. Use PromQL to query any metric collected in your cluster.

Useful PromQL queries

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# CPU usage by pod
sum(rate(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total[5m])) by (pod)


# Memory usage by namespace
sum(container_memory_working_set_bytes) by (namespace)


# HTTP request rate (if your app exposes metrics)
sum(rate(http_requests_total[5m])) by (service)

Alerting

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Grafana supports alerting rules that can notify you via email, Slack, or webhooks when metrics cross thresholds. Configure alert rules in Alerting → Alert rules within Grafana.

Next steps

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