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.