As a Kubernetes environment grows and becomes more complex, it gets harder to answer some very basic—but very important—questions. Questions like: What is the health of my cluster? What is the hierarchy and the health of the elements (nodes, pods, containers, and applications) within my cluster? In order to effectively manage the health and performance of your Kubernetes environments—at any scale and any level of complexity—it’s essential you have immediate, useful answers to these questions. Our Kubernetes cluster explorer was designed to give you a multi-dimensional representation of your clusters—giving you the ability to drill down into Kubernetes data and metadata in a high-fidelity, curated UI.

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Containing the Complexity
Intro to Multidimensional Kubernetes Monitoring
January 29, 2019

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Housekeeping
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Ali Gerrard
Sr. Product Marketing Manager
New Relic
Our Speakers
JF Joly
Sr. Product Manager
New Relic
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History lesson: How did we get here?
Server
Applications
on Containers
on Vms
Server
Applications
on VMs
Applications on
Orchestrated
Containers on VMs

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Move faster
Move faster by letting developers
instantaneously provision
resources for
their applications
Cost efficiency
Reduce costs by using
compute resources
more efficiently
Portability
Decouple the applications
from the underlying infrastructure
(Kubernetes runs on AWS, Azure,
GCP and on-prem) hence
allowing them to move their
workloads without redesigning
their applications

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“HELP, I DON’T
UNDERSTAND
KUBERNETES”
KUBERNETES
RUNNING IN
PRODUCTION
KUBERNETES ADOPTION JOURNEY

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Kubernetes Requires Teams to
Rethink and Adapt Their Monitoring
Kubernetes Cluster
Node
Pod/Deployments
Applications
Containers
End User Experience
Supporting
Infrastructure

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New Relic Kubernetes Integration
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• 3 steps install
• Immediate insights into
your Kubernetes cluster
• Alert on any Kubernetes
metric
• Deep stack view from the
application to the
infrastructure
• Extensibility via API

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Single dimensional views are helpful, but not enough
Customer Articulated Need:
● To get a holistic view into the
health of the Kubernetes
clusters and distribution of entities
● To understand the relationship
between nodes, pods,
containers and applications and
drill down through the entities
metrics and alerts

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Introducing Multidimensional Kubernetes Monitoring
Kubernetes cluster explorer
available today in Public Beta
Accessible to any
Infrastructure Pro customer
who has configured the New
Relic Kubernetes monitoring
integration—there’s nothing
extra to deploy or to configure

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