Kubernetes and container monitoring
Cluster, node, pod and container health, and the events that explain it.
Lists: Kubernetes monitoring tools in 2026 Best Kubernetes monitoring tools in 2026 Open source Kubernetes monitoring tools in 2026 Kubernetes monitoring tools with a free plan in 2026 Self-hosted Kubernetes monitoring tools in 2026
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Kubernetes ChatOps bot that posts cluster events and alerts to Slack, Discord or Mattermost and lets you run kubectl from chat.
Commercial Botkube Cloud ended 2024-11-05; open source edition continues but has had no commits since 2024-11-15. Source code
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Google's container advisor: a daemon that collects resource usage and performance data for running containers and exposes it to Prometheus. Built into the kubelet.
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Infrastructure monitoring for servers, networks, cloud and containers with automatic service discovery; the base edition is open source and paid editions add more.
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Open source observability that uses eBPF to build service maps and collect metrics, logs, traces and profiles without code changes, with root-cause hints.
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Small web UI that streams and searches live Docker container logs across hosts, with no log storage. Optional Dozzle Cloud adds grouped alerts and log analysis.
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Community-maintained open source Kubernetes desktop IDE, forked from OpenLens, for managing clusters and viewing workloads, metrics and logs.
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Kubernetes observability that uses an eBPF sensor and runs in your own cloud account, covering logs, traces, metrics and APM without code changes.
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Kubernetes web UI and desktop app, now a Kubernetes SIG UI project, for browsing cluster resources, logs and events, extensible with plugins.
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Network observability layer for Cilium that shows service dependencies, network flows and DNS and HTTP traffic between Kubernetes workloads, using eBPF.
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CNCF project of eBPF-based tools (gadgets) for inspecting and debugging Kubernetes workloads and Linux hosts, from network traces to process and file activity.
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CLI and operator that scans Kubernetes clusters for problems and explains them in plain language using an LLM backend of your choice. CNCF sandbox project.
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Terminal UI for Kubernetes that lists and watches cluster resources in real time and lets you view logs, exec into pods and act on resources with keystrokes.
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Commercial platform for Kubernetes troubleshooting and operations that tracks changes and health across clusters and uses AI agents to investigate and fix issues.
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Kubernetes add-on that listens to the API server and exposes the state of objects such as deployments, pods and nodes as Prometheus metrics.
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The former official web UI for viewing and managing workloads and resources in a Kubernetes cluster.
Repository archived in January 2026 for lack of maintainers; its README points users to Headlamp. Source code
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Exports Kubernetes events to sinks such as Slack, Opsgenie, Elasticsearch, Kafka or webhooks, so events can be kept and alerted on.
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Captures and dissects API traffic between Kubernetes pods (HTTP, gRPC, Kafka, DNS and more) so you can inspect requests cluster-wide, like Wireshark for Kubernetes.
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Kubernetes watcher that reports resource changes in the cluster to Slack, Mattermost and other chat channels or to a webhook.
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Desktop Kubernetes IDE for browsing clusters, resource metrics and logs across many clusters. Free for individuals and small organizations; paid plans add team and enterprise features.
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Cluster-wide aggregator of CPU and memory usage from kubelets, serving the Metrics API used by kubectl top and the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.
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Per-second metrics for servers, containers and applications from an agent with built-in dashboards and alerts, plus the optional hosted Netdata Cloud.
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Kubernetes observability that uses eBPF to capture service traffic, metrics and CPU profiles automatically; a CNCF sandbox project.
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Kubernetes operator that deploys and configures Prometheus and Alertmanager from custom resources. Its kube-prometheus project and the kube-prometheus-stack Helm chart bundle a full cluster monitoring setup.
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Kubernetes alert enrichment and routing on top of Prometheus: adds pod logs, events and graphs to alerts and sends them to Slack, Teams and other sinks. Open source core plus a paid SaaS.
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Commercial Kubernetes and cloud monitoring built on a managed Prometheus service, with dashboards, alerting and cost views for clusters and workloads.
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