<p>I'm running Kubernetes myself on Google Compute Engine (not Google Container Engine). Google Container Engine has <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/12/monitoring-Container-Engine-with-Google-Cloud-Monitoring.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">built-in integration</a> with Stackdriver Monitoring and I'm wondering if it's possible to set this up for a Kubernetes cluster on Google Compute Engine. </p>

<p>Specifically, I'd like to see more than just cpu, disk, etc. I want to see Kubernetes data like pod scheduling failures, pod counts, etc.</p>

<p>It is not possible to configure Stackdriver exactly the same way that it is done in GKE. </p>

<p>However, you can set <code>ENABLE_CLUSTER_MONITORING</code> to <code>google</code> in <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/cluster/gce/config-default.sh#L107" rel="nofollow noreferrer">config-default.sh</a> to enable Heapster and Google Cloud Monitoring. </p>
