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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
Thierry P.
Powerful Centralization, Demanding Learning
Reviewed on Sep 29, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I really appreciate being able to have multiple different data sources like the system, applications, and network all in one place with Grafana Labs. This allows me to centralize all my monitoring data in one place, which is really convenient.
What do you dislike about the product?
The setup process is very complex at first, and there is not really any accessible documentation or support to help. The initial integration is complicated, you have to ensure everything works correctly, then integrate our internal tools one by one.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Grafana Labs to centralize all my monitoring data in one place, bringing together different sources like the system, applications, and network.
Jeet S.
Flexible, Powerful Dashboards and Integrations That Scale with Your Monitoring
Reviewed on Sep 27, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Grafana Labs stands out for how flexible it becomes once you start working with it. What I like most is the dashboard side, because I can bring different monitoring data into one place and build views around what I actually want to see, instead of being stuck with the same fixed dashboard for everything.
The integrations are another big plus. Grafana can work with metrics, logs, traces, and different databases, so it stays useful even when the data is coming from different places. I also like the Explore area for jumping from a dashboard into the underlying data when I want to understand what’s really happening.
One thing I find especially useful, but that people may not notice immediately, is how much you can do with variables, panel queries, and dashboard links. Once these are set up properly, dashboards become more interactive, and you don’t have to keep creating separate dashboards for every small use case.
The new Grafana Assistant is also interesting, because I don’t always have to remember PromQL, LogQL, or other query languages. I can just explain what I’m looking for and get the query I need. Overall, I also like that Grafana doesn’t feel locked into one type of data. There’s definitely a big learning curve, but it’s worth it.
The integrations are another big plus. Grafana can work with metrics, logs, traces, and different databases, so it stays useful even when the data is coming from different places. I also like the Explore area for jumping from a dashboard into the underlying data when I want to understand what’s really happening.
One thing I find especially useful, but that people may not notice immediately, is how much you can do with variables, panel queries, and dashboard links. Once these are set up properly, dashboards become more interactive, and you don’t have to keep creating separate dashboards for every small use case.
The new Grafana Assistant is also interesting, because I don’t always have to remember PromQL, LogQL, or other query languages. I can just explain what I’m looking for and get the query I need. Overall, I also like that Grafana doesn’t feel locked into one type of data. There’s definitely a big learning curve, but it’s worth it.
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest thing I dislike about Grafana is that it can become complicated and expensive to manage as usage grows. At the beginning, it was easy enough to get dashboards running, but once you have more data sources, logs, longer retention, and more dashboards, there are a lot of things to keep track of. I also found the pricing a little difficult to predict, because Grafana Cloud can depend on things like usage, data volume, and retention. That makes it hard to know what the cost will look like when your monitoring requirements increase.
Another issue for me was the learning curve. Grafana is very flexible, but that flexibility also means there are many settings, query languages, and configuration options to understand. For a simple monitoring requirement, sometimes it felt like more setup and maintenance than I wanted.
Another issue for me was the learning curve. Grafana is very flexible, but that flexibility also means there are many settings, query languages, and configuration options to understand. For a simple monitoring requirement, sometimes it felt like more setup and maintenance than I wanted.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main problem Grafana solves is that monitoring data is usually spread across different places. Instead of checking separate tools for metrics, logs, traces, and infra data, Grafana gives you one place to bring that information together and understand what is happening. For example, if there is a sudden increase in errors, I can start with the metric, look at the related logs, and then follow the trace to see where the problem is coming from. That makes troubleshooting much easier than trying to match everything manually between different tools. Another benefit is the dashboards and alerting. I can have the important system information visible in one dashboard and get alerted when something crosses a threshold instead of someone reporting on production.
Overall, I would say it helps when something is wrong to understand.
Overall, I would say it helps when something is wrong to understand.
sahil R.
Great Real-Time Dashboards with Useful Integrations and Alerting
Reviewed on Sep 24, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Real-time monitoring of logs and metrics through dashboards. The dashboards are good overall, with useful integrations and alerting that make it easier to keep track of what’s happening.
What do you dislike about the product?
There’s a learning curve to using it effectively, since the setup can be quite complex. Also, when working with large datasets or long monitoring periods, it sometimes takes extra effort to investigate and fully understand specific events.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It reduces the overhead of manually checking the status of an application or API. It’s very helpful to view metrics through the dashboard, which makes it easier to evaluate performance parameters during an application’s peak window.
Keval D.
Clean and good-looking dashboards that clients also understand
Reviewed on Sep 24, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
As a web designer, the first thing I notice in any tool is the UI, and Grafana's UI is really clean. Dashboards look professional and I can easily change colours, panels and layouts as per my requirement. It also connects easily with different data sources, so I don't have to do any complicated setup for showing client data. Performance is good too - even dashboards with a lot of data are loading fast and smooth. Recently I also tried the AI features, it is giving good suggestions for panels which is saving my time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Only problem is pricing. For freelancers and small teams the paid plans are a little costly. They should give more options in the free plan.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Earlier when I had to show reports to clients, I was making everything manually and it was looking very basic. Now with Grafana I can share proper visual dashboards which clients are understanding easily. Onboarding was also smooth for me, documentation is clear and whenever I got stuck the support team helped quickly. Overall it has made my reporting work much faster and more professional.
German F.
Proactive, AI-Driven Cloud Monitoring with Grafana Labs
Reviewed on Sep 22, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Grafana Labs enables me to proactively monitor my infrastructure through a cloud-based, AI-driven environment. I appreciate how it has evolved from a visibility system focused on tracking IT KPIs into a more AI-managed environment that supports ongoing monitoring and oversight.
What do you dislike about the product?
The most difficult part is establishing the necessary connections to monitor my local servers; it also requires creating very clear security policies to determine which traffic is permitted.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It makes things easier for me to have a cloud-based Grafana environment, whereas I previously used it locally alongside another monitoring tool.