<p>Google Cloud Platform announced "Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring" at Kubecon 2018. It looks awesome.</p>

<p>I am an AWS user running a few Kubernetes clusters and immediately had envy, until I saw that it also supported AWS and "on prem".</p>

<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-monitoring" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring</a></p>

<p>This is where I am getting a bit lost.</p>

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<li><p>I cannot find any documentation for helping me deploy the agents onto my Kubernetes clusters. The closest example I could find was here: <a href="https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/kubernetes-engine/customizing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Manual installation of Stackdriver support</a>, but the agents are polling for "internal" GCP metadata services.</p>

<pre><code>E0512 05:14:12 7f47b6ff5700 environment.cc:100 Exception: Host not found (authoritative): 'http://metadata.google.internal./computeMetadata/v1/instance/attributes/cluster-name'
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<li><p>I'm not sure the Stackdriver dashboard has "Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring" turned on. I don't seem to have the same interface as the demo on YouTube <a href="https://youtu.be/aa8cgmfHTAs?t=4m25s" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a></p></li>
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<p>I'm not sure if this is something which will get turned on when I configure the agents correctly, or something I'm missing.</p>

<p>I think I might be missing some "getting started" documentation which takes me through the setup.</p>

<p>You can use a Stackdriver partner service, Blue Medora BindPlane, to monitor AWS Kubernetes or almost anything else in AWS for that matter or on-premise.  Here's an article from Google Docs about the partnership: <em><a href="https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/blue-medora" rel="nofollow noreferrer">About Blue Medora</a></em>; you can signup for BindPlane through the <a href="https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/bluemedora/bindplane" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google Cloud Platform Marketplace</a>.</p>

<p>It looks like BindPlane is handling deprecated Stackdriver monitoring agents. <em><a href="https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/agent/plugins/bindplane-transition" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google Cloud: Transition guide for deprecated third-party integrations</a></em></p>
