How to Monitor Kubernetes K3s Using Telegraf and InfluxDB Cloud

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Lightweight Kubernetes, known as https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s, is an installation of Kubernetes half the size in terms of memory footprint. Do you also need to know how your pods perform, the resources they consume, as well as network traffic? In this article, I will show you how to monitor K3s with Telegraf and InfluxDB Cloud.

Specifically, these run in a cluster of three nodes in DigitalOcean that run K3s, and I use Telegraf and InfluxDB to monitor everything.

If you don’t have Helm installed, you can install it by running this command: $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get-helm-3 |bash

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