Deploying InfluxDB and Telegraf to Monitor Kubernetes

This article discusses deploying InfluxDB OSS 2.x and Telegraf to monitor Kubernetes clusters. The author explains the benefits of using InfluxDB and Telegraf, including easy off-site replication, ease of setup, and familiarity with the tools. They also provide a step-by-step guide on how to create a dedicated namespace for monitoring, deploy and preconfigure an InfluxDB OSS 2.x instance, and configure Telegraf as a DaemonSet. The article concludes by discussing how to visualize metrics in Grafana and provides tips on dashboarding.