Getting Started with Kubernetes Monitoring

Getting started

To use Infrastructure Explorer, begin by setting up the Kubernetes Complete Observability Integration. This integration collects logs, metrics, metadata, and traces across your Kubernetes environment.

To get started:

1. In your Coralogix toolbar, go to Data Flow > Integrations
2. Select Kubernetes Complete Observability

Click + Setup Collector to create a new integration, or use the arrow icon to upgrade an existing one. Enter the required details, then click Next to continue.

For a full walkthrough, see the Kubernetes Complete Observability configuration guide.

Enable observability features

Once you're under the Observability Features section of the setup wizard, enable the following toggles to activate the necessary features for Infrastructure Explorer:

• Host metrics: Collects host-level CPU, memory, disk, and network usage
• Process Metrics: Enables host process collection using the process preset
• Kubelet metrics: Collects node, pod, container, and volume metrics via the kubeletstats receiver
• Cluster metrics: Pulls cluster-wide metrics from the Kubernetes API server
• Kubernetes extra metrics: Captures additional Kubernetes component metrics
• Scrape all: Enables extended metric coverage
• Collector metrics: Monitors internal performance metrics from the OpenTelemetry Collector

Key toggle: Resource Catalog / Infra Explorer

Under Additional Features, enable this toggle to activate Infrastructure Explorer’s core functionality, including:

• Live infrastructure metadata
• Resource relationships (e.g., pod-to-node)
• Ownership and tag-based filtering
• Searchable inventory of Kubernetes and cloud entities

For full installation and Helm deployment steps, refer to the Kubernetes Complete Observability.

For advanced enrichment and filtering options, see Kubernetes Enrichment Options.