Monitoring with Custom Metrics

Custom metrics are application-level or business-related tailored metrics, as opposed to the ones that come directly out-of-the-box from monitoring systems like Prometheus (e.g: kube-state-metrics or node exporter)

By kickstarting a monitoring project with Prometheus, you might realize that you get an initial set of out-of-the-box metrics with just Node Exporter and Kube State Metrics. But, this will only get you so far since you will just be performing black box monitoring. How can you go to the next level and …

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