<p>I am running a Kubernetes cluster on Google container engine. My metrics are not getting pushed to Stackdriver by default.</p>

<p>Do I need to start Heapster service explicitly or is it automatically managed by container engine itself?</p>

<p>If there isn't a Heapster pod running in your cluster, then your cluster was created before we started enabling cluster monitoring by default. </p>

<p>We are working on adding a way for users to retroactively turn on monitoring, but if you want metrics pushed into stack driver today you will need to create a new cluster (launching Heapster yourself isn't sufficient for the metrics to get collected). </p>
