Kubernetes Monitoring Tools: K3D With Octant Vs Kubernetes Dashboard
Kubernetes Dashboard and Octant compared for monitoring K3D clusters: Dashboard requires deployment, access via web proxy, partial real-time updates; Octant is local, easy to set up, full real-time updates.
K3D is a lightweight wrapper around k3s that allows you to run Kubernetes clusters inside Docker containers. While K3D is widely used for local development and testing, effective monitoring of services running on Kubernetes clusters is essential for debugging, performance tuning, and understanding resource usage. In this blog, I will explore two popular monitoring tools for Kubernetes: Kubernetes Dashboard, the official web-based UI for Kubernetes, and Octant, a local, real-time, standalone dashboard developed by VMware. Both tools have unique strengths, and this guide will help you understand...