Kubernetes Health View

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Kubernetes health in SOBS is sourced from OTEL metric tables. It supports two deployment patterns: OTEL-native collectors (kubeletstats/k8s_cluster receivers) and Prometheus scraping (kube-state-metrics + cAdvisor via an OTEL Prometheus receiver). SOBS auto-detects which format is present with no configuration change needed.
When enabled, a Kubernetes entry appears in the navigation sidebar.
Supported In-Cluster Setups

Option A — OTEL-native collectors: deploy k8s/otel-k8s-deployment.yaml and k8s/otel-k8s-daemonset.yaml.

Option B — Prometheus scraping (simpler): run a single OTEL collector with a Prometheus receiver that scrapes kube-state-metrics and kubelet /metrics/cadvisor. Metric names like kube_node_status_condition, kube_pod_status_phase, and kube_deployment_spec_replicas are automatically recognised.

Once any supported collector is running and sending data to SOBS, the dashboard populates automatically. See Setup & Help for reference manifests.