How I Monitored My Minikube Cluster with DataDog & Terraform

Garrett Sweeney
Cloud Tidbits
Published in
4 min readFeb 27, 2022

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Why monitor a minikube cluster? It’s a nice exercise of going through the process to set up DataDog & explore the K8s metrics offerings.

This article is a walkthrough of my experience to:

  • Get set up with the latest minikube
  • Deploy a Sample Application
  • Create a DataDog (Trial) Account
  • Install the DataDog Agent with Helm
  • Install the DataDog Integration & View a Dashboard

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