How do I monitor a kubernetes POD restart

[susmita_k]

what is the best way to get alert when a Kubernetes pod/container get restarted?

[AntonPineiro · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If you are monitoring Kubernetes API, you can use out-the-box workload alerts.

Best regards

[susmita_k]

We are not able to get the alert after turning on the container restart anomaly detection for workload.

[dyn98007]

Creating a Metric event on a  query (like the example below) , and using that to Alert based on an appropriate threshold helped in my case.

builtin:kubernetes.container.restarts:filter(and(or(in("dt.entity.cloud_application_namespace",entitySelector("type(cloud_application_namespace),entityName.equals(~"eventservice~")"))))):splitBy("dt.entity.cloud_application","dt.entity.cloud_application_instance"):sort(value(auto,descending)):limit(20)

Please validate the query in Data explorer. Screenshot attached