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Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring provides a simplified approach that enables you to monitor your Kubernetes fleet. You can use its rich interface to drill into your data, as well as take advantage of preconfigured dashboards, recording rules, and alert rules. Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring is only available with an active Grafana Cloud License.
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Overview
Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring is an out-of-the-box solution that promptly detects infrastructure issues, optimizes costs & efficiency, predicts resource usage, automates incident management, and adapts to your specific services. It provides:
- Full visibility, from Kubernetes clusters to Kubernetes pods to quickly move throughout your Kubernetes setup in a single UI. Start with a cluster view and drill all the way down to specific Kubernetes pods with just a few clicks.
- Instant Prometheus-correlated logs. Prometheus and Grafana Loki shared metadata keeps the exact same labels for your Kubernetes cluster, so accessing correlated Kubernetes metrics and logs couldnt be easier.
- Better insight into your resource usage. You can dial in on cloud resource usage to optimize efficiency, discover unused and stranded resources, easily determine better pod limits and improved placement, understand your resource management policy imperfections, and decrease your carbon footprint
- Cost monitoring. You can gain better insight into your Kubernetes costs, spending trends, and potential savings with the cost monitoring feature, which is based on the open source project Opencost.
Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring in only available with an active Grafana Cloud License: https://grafana.com/products/cloud/ & https://grafana.com/pricing/
Highlights
- Get cost monitoring out of the box for no extra charge apart from the ingested metrics: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/kubernetes-monitoring/navigate-k8s-monitoring/#analyze-costs
- Understand efficiency and resource use: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/kubernetes-monitoring/navigate-k8s-monitoring/#understand-efficiency-and-resource-use
- Compatible with Otel Collector & deployable via Helm, Terraform, ArgoCD: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/kubernetes-monitoring/configuration/configure-infrastructure-manually/
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Grafana Cloud Kubernetes Monitoring Add-on
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- Amazon EKS
EKS add-on
An add-on is software that provides supporting operational capabilities to Kubernetes applications but isn't specific to the application. This includes software like observability agents or Kubernetes drivers that allow the cluster to interact with underlying AWS resources for networking, compute, and storage. Add-on software is typically built and maintained by the Kubernetes community, cloud providers like AWS, or third-party vendors. Amazon EKS add-ons provide installation and management of a curated set of add-ons for Amazon EKS clusters. All Amazon EKS add-ons include the latest security patches and bug fixes, and are validated by AWS to work with Amazon EKS. Amazon EKS add-ons allow you to consistently ensure that your Amazon EKS clusters are secure and stable and reduce the amount of work that you need to do to install, configure, and update add-ons.
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v1 maintenance release. See the chart directory at this tag for the source.
Note: k8s-monitoring v1 is deprecated as of 2026-06-01. Please migrate to v4 (charts/k8s-monitoring).
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Before deploying this Add-on, create a secret with this information:
apiVersion: v1 kind: Namespace metadata: name: monitoring
apiVersion: v1 kind: Secret metadata: name: grafana-cloud namespace: monitoring stringData: prometheus-host: <prometheus host> prometheus-username: <prometheus username> prometheus-password: <prometheus password> loki-host: <loki host> loki-username: <loki username> loki-password: <loki password> tempo-host: <tempo host> tempo-username: <tempo username> tempo-password: <tempo password>
For more information, see https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/kubernetes-monitoring/configuration/config-aws-eks/
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Customer reviews
Yogesh S.
The ultimate monitoring hub for our backend, even if the setup tests your patience.
Reviewed on Aug 17, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The sheer flexibility of the visualizations is what keeps me hooked. As a software engineer at a mid-sized company, I have to keep tabs on a lot of moving parts. I love that I can pull in metrics from our Python Flask APIs and combine them with query performance stats from our MySQL databases onto a single screen. When things go wrong, having a unified view means I don't have to frantically switch between three different server management tools to figure out what is failing. The community dashboards are also a massive time saver, letting me import pre-built layouts for our specific tech stack rather than starting from a blank canvas every single time.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve can be genuinely frustrating, especially when you are just trying to set up something basic. Figuring out query languages to get the exact data you want to show up on a graph takes a lot of trial and error, and the documentation can sometimes feel geared toward DevOps experts rather than everyday developers. Sometimes the configuration menu for a single panel feels way too cluttered with granular options that most people will never touch. Additionally, as our engineering team has grown, managing permissions and keeping our dashboard folders organized has become surprisingly tedious, often requiring manual cleanup to stop people from accidentally overriding someone else's customized view.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It completely removed the guesswork from debugging performance issues and blind spots in our architecture. We used to rely on scattered log files to figure out why an endpoint was slow, which was exhausting. Recently, a specific module in our HRMS deployment started timing out heavily during peak usage. Because we had our infrastructure mapped out in Grafana, I just pulled up our main health dashboard and instantly saw a massive spike in database table locks correlating exactly with our web framework's worker thread saturation. It pinpointed the exact bottleneck in seconds, saving us hours of digging through raw server logs and letting us push an optimized query fix out the same afternoon.
Akshith R.
Grafana Cloud’s Cost Optimization Tools Help Cut Noisy Metrics and Spend
Reviewed on Aug 15, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Cost Optimization Tools
Through features like Adaptive Telemetry and customizable retention policies, Grafana Cloud helps engineering teams trim down noisy metric volumes and manage operational spend better than traditional usage-heavy SaaS observability vendors
Through features like Adaptive Telemetry and customizable retention policies, Grafana Cloud helps engineering teams trim down noisy metric volumes and manage operational spend better than traditional usage-heavy SaaS observability vendors
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing I find challenging about Grafana is that its flexibility can also make it complex. As you move beyond basic dashboards into advanced PromQL queries, alerting, variables, permissions, and multiple data sources, there’s a noticeable learning curve. At scale, keeping dashboards and configurations consistent can also require discipline. I think that’s more of a trade-off than a fundamental weakness—the flexibility is one of Grafana’s biggest strengths, but it can make the platform harder to learn and operate initially.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For me, this is especially valuable when troubleshooting cloud networking and security issues. Instead of checking individual AWS services, firewalls, load balancers, or application logs separately, I can use Grafana dashboards and queries to identify patterns such as traffic spikes, latency, errors, or resource utilization and then drill down toward the root cause.
Myshelle S.
Awesome Gift Cards from Grafana
Reviewed on Aug 15, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Grafana gives out gift cards. They are awesome.
What do you dislike about the product?
I haven’t had any bad experiences with Grafana so far.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It doesn't apply.
Manish R.
All-in-One Real-Time Monitoring with Easy Cloud Integration
Reviewed on Aug 11, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
RealTime Monitoring, Single solution for all monitoring and observability.
Easy Integration with AWS and other cloud platfirms
Easy to use, Easy to onboard.
Can Integrate with AI System also. Using it with Gen AI platform with good performance. Not too much cost
Easy Integration with AWS and other cloud platfirms
Easy to use, Easy to onboard.
Can Integrate with AI System also. Using it with Gen AI platform with good performance. Not too much cost
What do you dislike about the product?
They could have more options in Enterprise plan
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using it for AI System and all my microservices monitoring and integrated with AWS for realtime monitoring.
Manish D.
Grafana’s “Bring Your Own Data” Flexibility Is a Game-Changer
Reviewed on Aug 07, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about Grafana is its "bring your own data" philosophy. Unlike traditional monitoring platforms that force you to ingest all data into their proprietary backend. Grafana lets you leave your data exactly where it lives.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Grafana is extremely powerful, the learning curve can be steep for non-expert users. Mastering domain-specific query language like PromQL and TraceQL takes time, and configuring complex dashboard often requires significant setup
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It eliminates vendor lock-in by supporting a wide range of open-source and proprietary data sources through plugins.