title: Can I use Google Cloud Monitoring to monitor a failing Container / Pod?
body: <p>Trying out <code>Google Cloud Monitoring</code> - I am struggling to create an alert using out-of-the-box metrics for when a Container or Pod has errors, is unschedulable, and so on. Really basic stuff to monitor if my application(s) are healthy. Something that is really easy to configure using Prometheus.</p>
  
  <p>There is a resource type called "GKE Container" but it mostly contains basic stuff like CPU and memory usage. There is also a resource type called "Kubernetes Pod" but that one only contains stuff tagged with <code>kubernetes.io/anthos</code> and all the metrics / time series are empty.</p>
  
  <p>Is this a conscious omission on Google's part - i.e. I need to deploy something myself? My hopes for Google Cloud Monitoring was that I didn't need to deploy &amp; configure as much stuff as I did with Prometheus - it's a paid service after all.</p>