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Kubernetes observability

Gain deep insights into the health, performance, and behavior of your Kubernetes clusters with advanced observability. Go beyond traditional monitoring to understand the root cause of the issues in your Kubernetes setup and guarantee a highly resilient, robust, and scalable Kubernetes environment. From metrics and logs to traces and events—get a unified view of everything that matters.

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Why Kubernetes observability matters

Kubernetes environments are dynamic, ephemeral, and highly distributed. Traditional monitoring tools fall short when it comes to understanding complex microservice interactions and container behaviors. Kubernetes observability provides a holistic, real-time view of your system's internal state, making it easier to:

  • Pinpoint the root cause of issues across services, nodes, and containers.
  • Understand how code and infrastructure changes impact system health.
  • Prevent outages by identifying anomalies early.
  • Correlate logs, metrics, traces, and events in one place.
  • Optimize performance and resource usage with data-driven decisions.

Key features of Kubernetes observability in Site24x7

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Out-of-the-box telemetry collection

Automatically collect, visualize, and correlate key Kubernetes metrics, logs, traces, and events without the complex setup.

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Service and dependency mapping

View real-time service-to-service interactions and track dependencies with distributed tracing.

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Unified observability dashboard

View metrics, logs, and traces on a single pane of glass with AI-powered insights.

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Granular visibility at each component level

Monitor resource usage, error rates, and performance at the most granular level and get the best practice recommendations to ensure a highly available Kubernetes ecosystem.

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Kubernetes change tracker

Track the YAML changes to ensure real-time visibility into configuration modifications, helping you maintain cluster integrity, troubleshoot issues, and meet compliance requirements.

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Event correlation and alerting

Connect Kubernetes events to performance metrics and receive contextual alerts before users are affected.

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Root cause analysis (RCA)

Connect Kubernetes events to performance metrics and receive contextual alerts before users are affected.

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Custom dashboards and alerts

Build personalized views and set threshold-based or anomaly-based alerts with ease.

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Multi-cluster and hybrid support

Observe workloads running across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid Kubernetes clusters.

What makes observability different from monitoring?

Aspect Monitoring Observability
Scope Tracks known issues with predefined metrics Helps uncover unknown-unknowns
Data Primarily metrics Combines metrics, logs, traces, and events
Outcome React to alerts Proactively investigate and debug
Depth Surface-level indicators Deep contextual understanding
Use case Uptime and threshold breaches Complex troubleshooting and optimization

Observability is not just an extension of monitoring—it’s an evolution. While monitoring asks "Is my system up?", observability asks "Why is it behaving this way?"

Metrics

Gain visibility into cluster-wide and granular metrics:

  • CPU and memory usage across pods, nodes, and containers
  • Workload-level metrics including Deployments, ReplicaSets, StatefulSet, DaemonSets, and Jobs
  • Network throughput and disk I/O
  • Custom application-level metrics via Prometheus exporters
Gain visibility into cluster wide and granular metrics

Logs

Correlate logs with performance issues and user experience:

  • Collect logs from containers and system components
  • Use advanced search and filtering
  • Identify failure patterns and debug faster
Correlate logs with performance issues and user experience

Traces

Trace requests across microservices:

  • Get distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry.
  • Identify bottlenecks in API calls and transactions.
  • Visualize request flows with service maps.
Trace requests across microservices

Events

Understand the what and why of cluster changes:

  • Monitor Kubernetes control plane and object events.
  • Connect state changes with performance anomalies.
  • Trigger alerts on critical events (e.g., pod evictions, crashes).
Understand the what and why of cluster changes

Get started with Kubernetes observability

Whether you're running production workloads or managing complex microservices architectures, Kubernetes observability is essential to ensure stability, scalability, and success. With Site24x7, you get the tools and intelligence you need to turn raw telemetry into actionable insights—without the operational overhead.

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