Karpenter Observability

Logs

• Always export your logs (e.g., to Cloudwatch)

kubectl logs -n kube-system -l app.kubernetes.io/name=karpenter -f

Metrics

• https://karpenter.sh/docs/reference/metrics/
• Karpenter exposes Prometheus metrics at karpenter.kube-system.svc.cluster.local:8080/metrics
• Metrics
• Pod startup latency
• Node utilization
• ...