Topic: observability-vcf-k8s
All articles tagged “observability-vcf-k8s”.
2026
Aria Operations meets open source: unified observability for VCF
Connect VMware Aria Operations to Prometheus via remote_write, enrich Grafana with vSphere infrastructure metrics, and build unified dashboards that correlate VCF infra with Kubernetes workloads.
Centralised logging with Loki and Fluent Bit on VCF
Build the PLG logging stack on VCF and VKS: deploy Fluent Bit as a DaemonSet, configure its pipeline stages, ship logs to Loki, and query them with LogQL.
Observability foundations for VCF: metrics, logs and traces
The three pillars of observability defined by the OpenTelemetry specification, why they matter for VCF and VKS, and how to choose the right tool for each.
OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes: distributed tracing for cloud-native apps
Configure the OTel Collector pipeline on VKS, instrument applications with auto-instrumentation agents, export traces to Tempo or Jaeger, and correlate traces with Prometheus exemplars.
Prometheus & Grafana on VKS: the production monitoring stack
Deploy kube-prometheus-stack on VKS, configure ServiceMonitors and PodMonitors, set up alerting, and integrate with Grafana dashboards — an annotated production guide.