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Kubernetes State Metrics Collection

1 post · Oct 2021

What this trail covers

Datadog contributed to kube-state-metrics to improve its scalability and extensibility. This involved refactoring the metric generation process to be more efficient, reducing collection duration by 15x and enabling more granular data collection at high scale. The contribution focused on improving the core KSM library to handle large Kubernetes clusters more effectively.

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  1. Our journey taking Kubernetes state metrics to the next level | DatadogDatadog contributed to the kube-state-metrics project to improve its scalability and extensibility. The team refactored the metric generation process, resulting in a 15x reduction in collection duration and enabling more granular data collection at high scale. This involved improving the core KSM library to handle large Kubernetes clusters more effectively.