Monitoring and alerting on pod status or restart with Google Container Engine (GKE) and Stackdriver

Question

Is there a way to monitor the pod status and restart count of pods running in a GKE cluster with Stackdriver?

While I can see CPU, memory and disk usage metrics for all

Answer 1

In my cluster (a bare-metal k8s cluster)，I use kube-state-metrics https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics to do what you want. This project belongs to kubernetes repo and it is quite easy to use. Once deployed u can use kube_pod_container_status_restarts this metrics to know if a container restarts