Most folks have been using Grafana or something similar to monitor Kubernetes cluster.

If you are using Google cloud container engine, then the standard unified place to monitor all your application and services is Stackdriver.

According to Google’s documentation, when you create a new container cluster using GUI or gcloud, Stackdriver is automatically configured with a sink, however It did not work out of the box for me hence this post :)

Well, the easiest way to check if Stackdriver is configured is to issue a command

gcloud container clusters describe <cluster-name> If the response contains something like monitoringService: monitoring.googleapis.com then yer all good and you can simply go and visit https://app.google.stackdriver.com/gke link which should point you to your cluster.

otherwise issue this command to register sinks with monitoring.googleapis.com

gcloud alpha container clusters update <clustername> –monitoring-service=monitoring.googleapis.com

Hope this helps