System component metrics can give a better look into what is happening inside them. Metrics are particularly useful for building dashboards and alerts. Kubernetes components emit metrics in Prometheus format. This format is structured plain text, designed so that people and machines can both read it. Metrics in Kubernetes In most cases metrics are available on /metrics endpoint of the HTTP server. For components that don't expose endpoint by default, it can be enabled using --bind-address flag.| Kubernetes
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Tools such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry help us monitor the health, performance, and availability of our complex distributed systems. Both are open source projects under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) umbrella – but what role does each play in observability? OpenTelemetry (OTel for short), is a vendor-neutral open standard for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data. Prometheus is a fixture of the observability landscape, widely relied upon for m...| OpenTelemetry