Kubernetes Dashboard

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Free

Open source

Yes (Apache-2.0)

Self-hosted

Yes

Launched

2015

Status

Archived

Website

github.com

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Kubernetes and container monitoring checklist

4 of 10 confirmed in Kubernetes Dashboard's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Kubernetes.

• + Cluster, node and pod metrics Yes
• + Kubernetes events Yes
• + Pod logs Yes
• ? Cluster view Not confirmed
• x Requests and limits advice No
• ? Change timeline Not confirmed
• x Network visibility No
• x Alerting No
• x Multi-cluster No
• + Runs in your cluster Yes

Archived. Single-cluster in-cluster web UI: node/pod CPU and memory (via metrics scraper), events on detail pages, built-in logs viewer; no alerting.

Checked against: github.com, kubernetes.io

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