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Published inApr 2018
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Joseph Heck
Joseph Heck
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Joseph Heck

Joseph Heck has broad development and management experience across start-ups and large companies. He has architected, developed, and deployed a wide variety of solutions, ranging from mobile and desktop applications to cloud-based distributed systems. He builds and directs teams and mentors individuals to improve the way they build, validate, deploy, and run software. He also works extensively with and in open source, collaborating across many projects, including Kubernetes.
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Capturing metrics with Prometheus


Prometheus is a prominent open source tool used for monitoring, and quite a bit of symbiotic work is happening between it and the Kubernetes community. Kubernetes application metrics are exposed in the Prometheus format. This format includes the data types of counter, gauge, histogram, and summary, as well as a means of specifying labels to be associated with specific metrics. As Prometheus and Kubernetes have both evolved, the metrics format from Prometheus appears to be emerging as a de facto standard within the project and across its various components.

More information about this format is available online at the Prometheus project's documentation:

Beyond the metrics format, Prometheus offers quite a variety of capabilities as its own open source project, and is used outside Kubernetes. The architecture...

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Published in: Apr 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788834759

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Joseph Heck

Joseph Heck has broad development and management experience across start-ups and large companies. He has architected, developed, and deployed a wide variety of solutions, ranging from mobile and desktop applications to cloud-based distributed systems. He builds and directs teams and mentors individuals to improve the way they build, validate, deploy, and run software. He also works extensively with and in open source, collaborating across many projects, including Kubernetes.
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