September Product Power Hour: Cloud Monitoring with Kubernetes & Containers
Overview This month’s Product Power Hour focused on Cloud Monitoring with Kubernetes and Containers, emphasizing simplified observability across containerized environments. The session demonstrated how LogicMonitor makes monitoring clusters, pods, and workloads easier without overwhelming teams with noise. Through demos, best practices, and customer discussions, attendees gained practical insights into deploying and managing monitoring at scale with AKS, EKS, and beyond. Key Highlights ⭐ Seamless Enablement: Existing PaaS customers can activate Kubernetes monitoring out of the box, while others can leverage LM’s container monitoring license for quick setup. ⭐ Deeper Visibility: Demonstrations showcased how LM provides observability across nodes, pods, and system containers—cutting through complexity without flooding teams with alerts. ⭐ Retention & History: The session clarified how historical K8s data is retained and how teams can use that data for trend analysis and capacity planning. ⭐ Best Practices: Real-world examples illustrated how to configure thresholds effectively to avoid alert fatigue, especially in sandbox or test clusters. Q&A Q: How can we enable this Kubernetes for existing customers? A: “For an existing PaaS customer you just configure it as it is included in the PaaS License — 1 PaaS license = 1 monitored pod (existing cloud licensing model). For AKS or EKS monitoring you just configure it in your cloud configuration (check the box). For a non-PaaS customer you need to add the LM Container Monitoring license (old license model).” Q: I am new to K8s — how do I monitor the critical components of the platform when there are so many system containers? A: “Focus on the system containers and use the out-of-the-box DataSources as a starting point, then tune thresholds to reduce noise.” Q: What will be the retention period of history data of K8s monitors? A: “Retention is handled according to LogicMonitor’s standard data retention policies, so you can view history for trending and analysis just like other monitored resources.” What’s Next 💻Level Up Your IT Universe: Next LogicMonitor Innovations Unveiled Webinar On September 24, discover the latest Edwin AI and LM Envision capabilities, including noise-cutting AI agents, Dynamic Service Insights, and expanded multi-cloud monitoring, designed to move IT from reactive to resilient. ➡️Register here to save your spot! 🪵 Logs for Lunch October 8: Logs Overages & Reducing MTTR with Cloud Logs ⚡ Next Product Power Hour October 29: App Visibility for ITOps Want to check out previous Product Power Hours? Explore the Product Power Hour Hub in the LM Community! 📚 Badges and Certifications Earn free, on-demand, digital badges that validate your product knowledge and platform skills. Available badges: 🛡️Getting Started 🛡️Collectors 🛡️Logs 🛡️AI Ops Adoption 🛡️Dashboards Review If you missed any part of the session or want to revisit the content, we’ve got you covered: Review the slide deck Want to dive deeper into this session? Watch the recording below ⬇️
