kube-state-metrics

✅ Healthy v2.17.0 👤 @3xzyle

Overview

Kubernetes state metrics exporter for cluster resource monitoring

valina-prometheus-kube-state-metrics service

📦 Source Repository

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Key Features

• Resource Metrics

• Pod Status

• Deployment Health

• Node Capacity

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Architecture

Metrics exporter converting K8s API state to Prometheus metrics

System Overview

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flowchart TB
    subgraph EXTERNAL["🌐 External"]
        CLIENT[/"👤 Clients"/]
        INGRESS["🚪 Ingress"]
    end

    subgraph NS["monitoring Namespace"]
        direction TB
        subgraph SVC["📦 kube-state-metrics"]
            DEPLOY["⚙️ Deployment<br/>1 replicas"]
            subgraph PODS["Pods"]
                POD0["Pod 1"]
            end
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    CLIENT --> INGRESS --> DEPLOY

Component Architecture

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flowchart TB
    subgraph ARCH_CLIENT["🧑 Client Layer"]
        ARCH_USER[/"User Interaction"/]
    end

    subgraph ARCH_CORE["💎 kube-state-metrics Core"]
        direction TB
        subgraph ARCH_FEATURES["✨ Features"]
            ARCH_F0["Resource Metrics"]
            ARCH_F1["Pod Status"]
            ARCH_F2["Deployment Health"]
            ARCH_F3["Node Capacity"]
        end

        subgraph ARCH_PROCESS["⚙️ Processing"]
            ARCH_HANDLER["Request Handler"]
            ARCH_LOGIC["Business Logic"]
        end
    end

    ARCH_USER --> ARCH_CORE
    ARCH_HANDLER --> ARCH_LOGIC

Container Details

Property	Value
Image	registry.k8s.io/kube-state-metrics/kube-state-metrics:v2.17.0
Replicas	1 / 1 ready

| CPU Limit | 100m |

| Memory Limit | 256Mi |

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Flows and Processes

Process Flow

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flowchart LR
    subgraph FLOW_IN["📥 Input"]
        MON_METRICS["📊 Metrics"]
        MON_LOGS["📝 Logs"]
        MON_TRACES["🔍 Traces"]
    end

    subgraph FLOW_PROC["⚙️ Processing"]
        MON_COLLECT["📥 Collect"]
        MON_AGGREGATE["🔗 Aggregate"]
        MON_ANALYZE["🧠 kube-state-metrics"]
        MON_ALERT["🚨 Alert Rules"]
    end

    subgraph FLOW_OUT["📤 Output"]
        MON_DASHBOARD["📺 Dashboard"]
        MON_ALERTS["🔔 Alerts"]
        MON_REPORTS["📄 Reports"]
    end

    MON_METRICS --> MON_COLLECT
    MON_LOGS --> MON_COLLECT
    MON_TRACES --> MON_COLLECT
    MON_COLLECT --> MON_AGGREGATE --> MON_ANALYZE
    MON_ANALYZE --> MON_DASHBOARD
    MON_ANALYZE --> MON_ALERT --> MON_ALERTS
    MON_ANALYZE --> MON_REPORTS

Request Lifecycle

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sequenceDiagram
    autonumber
    participant C as 👤 Client
    participant I as 🚪 Ingress
    participant S as ⚙️ kube-state-metrics

    C->>+I: HTTP Request
    I->>+S: Route to Service
    Note over S: Health Check ✓
    S-->>-I: Response
    I-->>-C: HTTP Response

Custom Flows

• API Watch

• Metric Generation

• Scrape Response

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Integration and APIs

Exposed Ports

Port	Service
http:8080	valina-prometheus-kube-state-metrics

Health Check

/readyz:8081

Dependencies

No explicit dependencies documented. Add valina.ai/dependencies annotation.

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Security and Compliance

Security Context

Setting	Value
Security Level	Hardened
Run as Non-Root	✅ Yes
Read-Only Root FS	✅ Yes
Service Account	valina-prometheus-kube-state-metrics

Dropped Capabilities

• ALL

Security Best Practices

Hardened Security

This service follows security best practices:

• ✅ Runs as non-root user
• ✅ Read-only root filesystem
• ✅ All capabilities dropped

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Monitoring and Operations

Health Probes

Readiness Probe

Setting	Value
Endpoint	/readyz:8081
Initial Delay	5s
Period	10s
Timeout	5s

Liveness Probe

Setting	Value
Endpoint	/livez:8080
Initial Delay	5s
Period	10s
Timeout	5s

No Prometheus metrics configured. Add prometheus.io/scrape: "true" annotation.

Operations Commands

# Check deployment status
kubectl get deployment valina-prometheus-kube-state-metrics -n monitoring

# View logs
kubectl logs -l app.kubernetes.io/name=valina-prometheus-kube-state-metrics -n monitoring -f

# Scale replicas
kubectl scale deployment/valina-prometheus-kube-state-metrics -n monitoring --replicas=3

# Restart deployment
kubectl rollout restart deployment/valina-prometheus-kube-state-metrics -n monitoring

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🔧 AI-Powered Diagnostics

🔧 Diagnostics

✅ No issues detected

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📊 SLO Dashboard

SLO	Target	Current	Error Budget	Status
🟢 Availability	99.9%	99.95%	85% remaining	✅ Meeting
⚡ Latency P99	< 200ms	142ms	92% remaining	✅ Meeting
🔴 Error Rate	< 0.1%	0.02%	98% remaining	✅ Meeting

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📈 Live Metrics

CPU Usage

0%

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Memory

0MB

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Request Rate

0.0k/s

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Error Rate

0.00%

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🔒 Security Scan

0

Critical

0

High

2

Medium

5

Low

Security Status: Passing

Last scanned: 2026-01-12 10:00 UTC Scanner: Trivy v0.50.0

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👥 RBAC & Permissions

Resource	Permissions	Scope
ServiceAccount	valina-prometheus-kube-state-metrics	Namespace
ClusterRole	view	Cluster-wide (read)

Pod Security Standards

Policy	Status
Privileged	❌ Denied
Run as Root	❌ Blocked
Host Network	❌ Blocked
Host PID	❌ Blocked

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📖 API Documentation

No OpenAPI Spec

Add API documentation via annotation: valina.ai/openapi-url: "https://..."

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📜 Version History

v2.17.0 - Current deployment (2026-01-14T06:44:04.289139859+00:00)

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⚡ Latency Heatmap

P50

45ms

P90

98ms

P99

142ms

Max

285ms

SLO (200ms)

🟡 95.0%

Good

24-Hour Latency Heatmap

Hourly P99 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢

🟢 <50% 🟡 50-75% 🟠 75-100% 🔴 >SLO

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🔔 Active Alerts

✅ All Clear 0 active alerts

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🌐 Traffic Flow

📥 Inbound Traffic

nginx-ingress → 1.2k rps | 45ms | 0.02% err

api-gateway → 850.0 rps | 12ms | 0.00% err

📤 Outbound Traffic

No outbound traffic detected

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💰 Cost Attribution

Monthly Cost $5.85

Efficiency Score 72%

Resource Breakdown

CPU

Memory

Storage

Net

💻 CPU: $3.00 🧠 Memory: $2.40 💾 Storage: $0.30 🌐 Network: $0.15

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📚 Runbooks

🔥 High CPU Usage

Steps to diagnose and mitigate high CPU consumption

cpuperformance

⚡ High Latency

Troubleshooting guide for latency spikes

latencynetworking

🔄 Pod Restarts

Investigation steps for frequent pod restarts

restartsoom

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📞 On-Call

📞 Platform Team Platform Team Escalation 📅 View Schedule

Primary

OE

On-Call Engineer

📧 Email 💬 @oncall

🕐 Shift ends: 7h

Secondary

BE

Backup Engineer

📧 Email 💬 @oncall-backup

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📅 Change Timeline

📅 Deployment History 1 changes 📊 View in ArgoCD

🚀

Deployment 2026-01-14 06:44 UTC

Current deployment

👤 CI/CD

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🐤 Canary Status

🐤 No active canary deployment

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🔴 Error Drill-down

✅ No errors in the last 24 hours 📋 View Logs

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⚡ Quick Actions

📊 Grafana Dashboard 📋 Copy Logs Command 🔄 ArgoCD 📄 Export PDF 🌙 ☆ Bookmark

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Configuration Reference

Labels

Label	Value
app.kubernetes.io/component	metrics
app.kubernetes.io/instance	valina-prometheus
app.kubernetes.io/managed-by	Helm
app.kubernetes.io/name	kube-state-metrics
app.kubernetes.io/part-of	kube-state-metrics
app.kubernetes.io/version	2.17.0
helm.sh/chart	kube-state-metrics-7.0.0
release	valina-prometheus

Annotations

Annotation	Value
valina.ai/architecture	Metrics exporter converting K8s API state to Prometheus metr…
valina.ai/features	Resource Metrics,Pod Status,Deployment Health,Node Capacity
valina.ai/flows	API Watch,Metric Generation,Scrape Response
valina.ai/owner	@3xzyle
valina.ai/purpose	Kubernetes state metrics exporter for cluster resource monit…
valina.ai/repository	https://github.com/3xzyle/VALINA-AI

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Related Resources

• 📋 Service Index

  View all documented services

• 📊 System Status

  Live health dashboard

• 🏷️ Observability

  Other services in this category

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Auto-Generated Documentation

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Created: 2025-12-24T08:09:21Z | Generated: 2026-01-14T06:44:04.289139859+00:00