Metrics reported from Azure Monitor

The Azure portal shows many of the metrics that you would like to see combined with authorization, as only personnel with access to the portal can see these metrics.

AKS Insights

The Insights section of the AKS blade provides most of the metrics you need to know about your cluster. It also has the ability to drill down to the container level. You can also see the logs of the container.

Kubernetes makes metrics available but doesn't store them. Azure Monitor can be used to store these metrics and make them available to query over time. To collect the relevant metrics and logs into Insights, Azure connects to the Kubernetes API to collect the metrics and then stores them in Azure Monitor.

Note

Logs of a container could contain sensitive information. Therefore, the rights to review logs should be controlled and audited.

Let's explore the Insights tab of the AKS blade. We'll start with the cluster metrics.

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