# Understand kubernetes monitoring best practices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understand-kubernetes-monitoring-best-practices/325054>\
**Category:** Elastic Observability\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [February 8, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understand-kubernetes-monitoring-best-practices/325054 "2023-02-08T19:29:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bahubali\_Shetti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bahubali_shetti/32/115769_2.png) [@Bahubali\_Shetti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bahubali_Shetti)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understand-kubernetes-monitoring-best-practices/325054/1 "2023-02-08T19:29:53Z")

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Great overview on what K8S Monitoring/Observability means and some best practices

> **[The basics of observing Kubernetes: A bird-watcher’s perspective](https://www.elastic.co/blog/monitoring-kubernetes-observability-basics)**
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> Observing Kubernetes deployments can be a challenge for an SRE or IT operations professional, but it all starts with the basics: knowing which components are observable, what can be observed, and how to understand and use that telemetry data.