The metrics-server component is used to collect monitoring metrics. You can use metrics-server to collect monitoring metrics from your cluster. This topic describes the features, usage notes, and release notes for metrics-server.
Introduction
The metrics-server component is a resource monitoring tool that ACS develops based on open source Metrics Server. metrics-server collects resource usage metrics for all pods in your cluster and enables the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) to work based on the collected metrics. You can call the Metrics API to retrieve monitoring metrics.
For more information about open source Metrics Server, see Kubernetes Metrics Server.
Usage notes
By default, metrics-server is installed in ACS clusters. You can use the following method to enable the basic monitoring feature.
Log on to the ACS console. In the left-side navigation pane, click Clusters.
On the Clusters page, find the cluster that you want to manage and click its ID. In the left-side navigation pane of the cluster details page, choose Operations > Add-ons.
Click the Logs and Monitoring tab, find the metrics-server component and click Configuration.
In the dialog box that appears, select Enables Kubernetes Monitoring of CloudMonitor and click OK.
Release notes
January 2024
Version number | Release date | Description | Impact |
v0.3.9.7-85b3699-aliyun | January 2024 |
| No impact on workloads. |