This document provides a brief comparison between Kubernetes Agent and Kubernetes 2.0 Agent.

KubernetesKubernetes 2.0
Only the following are discovered and monitored:
  • Container
  • Node
We are discovering and monitoring (collecting metrics) for more Kubernetes objects such:
  • Nodes
  • Pods
  • Namespaces
  • Services
  • Persistent Volumes (PVs)
  • Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs)
  • Daemonsets
  • Deployments
Metrics are collected via our agent onlyWe are using open-source OpenTelemetry framework which is an observability framework and toolkit designed to create and manage telemetry data such as metrics.
Kubernetes was having limited topology relationship viewKubernetes 2.0 comes with enhanced topology explorer which provides a visual representation of resources, their relationships, and availability, facilitating effective troubleshooting issues.
Kubernetes event alert was generated with metric name as KubeEvents and it was associated to cluster resource.Kubernetes event alert is generating using metric name as kubernetes_events and it is associated to resource involved in event if it is created by the time, else to cluster resource.