Lightning Talk: The Top 5 Kubernetes Metrics to Monitor

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Five concrete things to monitor: application request latency and error rates with examples like request latency (P95/P99); service connectivity such as DB connection counts to catch leaks; cluster scheduling correctness via a desired vs running pods (the “holy check”) — alert when running < desired beyond a short window; and control-plane plus node health by tracking kubelet/etcd/apiserver readiness and node capacity/NotReady churn. Claims: use 5 metrics, prefer Kubernetes-layer alerts over noisy host-only alerts; Sysdig is cited as a deployed tool.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:52Scope
3. 1:10APM
4. 2:15Interaction
5. 2:40Services
6. 3:00The Holy Check
7. 3:37Kubernetes Internals
8. 4:06Host Notes
9. 4:44Recap
10. 5:02Outro

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