Collecting Custom Metrics on AKS with Telegraf
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What if you need to collect your own custom metrics from workloads or nodes in AKS, but don't want to run a full monitoring stack?
In this post, we will discuss how to integrate custom metrics into Azure's managed monitoring stack with minimal setup using Telegraf DaemonSet, for flexible metric collection, Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus, for scraping and storage, and Azure Managed Grafana for visualization and alerting.