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Comprehensive Kubernetes Autoscaling Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

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The kubernetes-mixin is a popular resource for providing excellent dashboards and alerts for monitoring Kubernetes clusters. However, it lacks comprehensive support for autoscaling components such as Pod Disruption Budgets (PDB), Horizontal and Vertical Pod Autoscalers (HPA, VPA), Karpenter, and the …


Configuring VPA to Use Historical Metrics for Recommendations and Expose Them in Kube-state-metrics

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The Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) can manage both your pods' resource requests but also recommend what the limits and requests for a pod should be. Recently, the kube-state-metrics project removed built-in support for VPA recommendation metrics, which made the VPA …