# Monitoring
## complete Monitoring Stack for k8aux
consists of multiple components:

## Prometheus
prometheus collects metrics (from http /metrics)
### prometheus operator
prometheus operator is used to deploy prometheus, alertmanager and all the neccesary ressources via manifests
service monitor (scrapes services)
pod monitor (scrapes pods)
rules (rules for alertmaager)
## Alertmanager
## node exporter
## blackbox exporter
it can ping IPs and test HTTP sites
(used for endpoints that dont have metrics)
prometheus operator manages these targets via the probe ressource
## metrics server
extends the kubernetes api so you can do kubectl top node
## Grafana
can visualize things
its deployed via the grafana operator

Improvements:
monitor aux1 and aux2
monitor coredns
metrics
liveness probes
resource limits