Making the AKS Control Plane Less of a Black Box with Managed Prometheus
A Terraform demo for enabling AKS control plane metrics, tuning Prometheus collection, and exploring API server and etcd dashboards in Azure Managed Grafana.
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Articles tagged with "Observability"
AKS Desktop: A Hands-On Tour of Microsoft's New Desktop App for Kubernetes
What AKS desktop actually does — Projects, guided deployments without YAML, a natural-language AI troubleshooting assistant, and a built-in plugin catalog — walked through as a demo you can reproduce on your own cluster.
Harbor Audit Logs in Azure Log Analytics: A Fluent Bit Bridge
Forward Harbor audit events into Azure Log Analytics with a small Fluent Bit syslog bridge, reusing Container Insights so no new Azure resources are required.
AKS Without a Built-in CNI: Swapping iptables for Cilium and eBPF
What happens when you deploy AKS with networkPlugin: none, when customer-managed Cilium is justified over Azure CNI Powered by Cilium, and how to operate its eBPF dataplane, policies, and Hubble observability.
Monitoring Harbor with Azure Monitor and Azure Managed Grafana
Collect Harbor 2.15 metrics with an Azure-specific ServiceMonitor, verify ingestion in Azure Monitor managed Prometheus, and build a Harbor dashboard in Azure Managed Grafana.
Advanced Container Networking Services on AKS: X-Ray Vision and Kernel-Level Guardrails for Your Cluster Network
What Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) actually gives you on AKS — eBPF-powered network observability with Hubble, domain-based egress filtering, and HTTP-aware Layer 7 policies — explained through a hands-on demo you can run yourself.
Scaling AKS Workloads on Custom Metrics with KEDA and Azure Managed Prometheus
A hands-on demo using the AKS KEDA add-on and Azure Managed Prometheus to autoscale a Deployment on HTTP request rate. Covers the Prometheus scaler, ServiceMonitor scraping, Workload Identity authentication, and watching pods scale out and back in.