Corral your Docker containers with Kubernetes monitoring

The text discusses the growing adoption of containerization technology like Docker and how it increases orchestration complexity. It introduces Kubernetes as an open-source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts, providing deployment scheduling, workload optimization, and easy scaling. The article highlights that monitoring containers is crucial to ensure good application performance but presents new challenges with Kubernetes on top. To address these challenges, the author announces a new integration with Kubernetes in Datadog, allowing users to monitor their Kubernetes clusters, Docker containers, containerized applications, and more all in one place. The integration also enables monitoring of Kubernetes itself by capturing system metrics from nodes. Finally, it mentions that this integration provides access to visualization, alerting, and collaboration features of Datadog, allowing users to set up advanced alerts and trigger notifications through various communication channels.